Chapter 21: The New Deal

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headed a Senate subcommittee that exposed the methods that employers used to combat unionization, including spies, private police forces, and violence
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Robert M. La Follette Jr.

insisted that constitutional guarantees of free thought and expression were essential to "nearly every form of freedom" and therefore deserved special protection
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Supreme Court

established the Civil Liberties Unit in the Department of Justice
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Attorney General Frank Murphy

established the Civil Liberties Unit in the Department of Justice
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Attorney General Frank Murphy

Millions of women were excluded for Social Security, as it did not include domestic servants and women who did not work outside the home.
The profile of women was raised during the era by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who both advised the president.
Many employers refused to hire women if their husbands already earned a "living wage."

Identify the statements that describe Mexican-Americans' experiences during the Depression.

Attempts by Mexican-Americans to organize a union to represent their needs resulted in a brutal suppression.
Mexican-American citizens and Mexicans who recently arrived in the country were encouraged to return to Mexico.
Mexican-American politicians attempted to be classified as white in order to avoid suffering the same discrimination as African-Americans.

In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board noted that because of their inclusion in the Social Security Act, blacks were enjoying an improved economic situation all across the United States.

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Unlike the Public Works Administration, the Civil Works Administration directly hired construction workers for government-funded and sponsored projects.

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Huey Long was one of the more colorful political figures of the 1930s. Identify the statements that describe Long and his Share the Wealth movement.

Long dominated Louisiana state politics even from Washington, D.C., after his election to the senate.
Long wanted to confiscate most of the wealth of the richest Americans.
Long came from a conservative Louisiana family.

In 1939 Roosevelt put Keynesian economic theory to work by requesting billions of dollars for work relief and farm aid in an attempt to sustain the purchasing power of individual Americans and stimulate the economy.

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) came out of the Hundred Days. Identify the statements that describe the TVA and its mission.

The TVA would provide cheap and easy access to electricity for homes and industry in seven southern states.
The TVA was a series of dams designed to control the flooding on the Tennessee River and its tributaries.

Chapter 21: The New Deal

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