Question 1
Which statement about women during the Great Depression is true?
A) New Deal relief programs improved the conditions for working women.
B) Many NRA codes mandated lower wage scales for women.
C) Women were not included in the NRA's minimum wage requirement.
D) Women on relief were often allowed to do work traditionally reserved for men.
Question 2
In Chicago, on Memorial Day in 1937, __________.
A) police fired on strikers and their families, killing 10 people
B) Huey Long was assassinated as he gave a speech
C) the Socialist Party nominated Norman Thomas for president
D) FDR gave the most aggressive pro-labor speech of his career
Question 3
Militant laborers challenged traditional labor leaders by forming the __________.
A) Congress of Industrial Organizations
B) American Liberty League
C) American Federation of Labor
D) Knights of Labor
Question 4
What happened when auto workers at GM's Flint, Michigan plant went on strike?
A) They were attacked by the National Guard.
B) They won their strike by using the unique tactic of the sit-down strike.
C) They were removed from the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
D) They obtained better wages and shorter workdays.
Question 5
A significant shift in voting demographics occurred in the 1930s when __________.
A) wealthy industrialists abandoned the Republican Party
B) the lowest voter turnouts in American history occurred
C) blacks shifted their loyalties from the Republicans to the Democrats
D) the Solid South crumbled as the Republican Party increased its popularity