Question 1

What was significant about the 1936 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

A)  Black voters in the South shifted to the Republican Party. 
B)  Fewer blacks voted because violence and intimidation tactics were rampant. 
C)  Black voters outside the South shifted in significant numbers to the Democrats. 
D)  Whites refused to vote for Roosevelt because of his support for black political issues. 
A)  Black voters in the South shifted to the Republican Party. 
B)  Fewer blacks voted because violence and intimidation tactics were rampant. 
C)  Black voters outside the South shifted in significant numbers to the Democrats. 
D)  Whites refused to vote for Roosevelt because of his support for black political issues.

Question 2

What is the connection between class position and the impact of the Great Depression upon the black community?

Accepted Answer

The connection between class position an

Question 3

How were jobs allocated in the tobacco industry?

Accepted Answer

A)  Overall, they were allocated fairly, and all positions were given out according to skills and ability. 
B)  Black women were generally the only workers in the tobacco industry, so they exercised a tremendous political clout. 
C)  They were allocated by race and gender and gave black women the most difficult and tedious jobs in the industry. 
D)  Generally, only according to seniority within the company. 
A)  Overall, they were allocated fairly, and all positions were given out according to skills and ability. 
B)  Black women were generally the only workers in the tobacco industry, so they exercised a tremendous political clout. 
C)  They were allocated by race and gender and gave black women the most difficult and tedious jobs in the industry. 
D)  Generally, only according to seniority within the company.

Question 4

The limitations of the __________ administration to respond meaningfully to the economic crisis in the early 1930s doomed the Republican Party in the 1932 election.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The limitations of the __________ administration to...

Question 5

Attorneys Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston helped Donald Gaines __________ win his case in 1938 for admission to the University of Maryland Law School.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Attorneys Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston...

Question 6

What was a goal of the Detroit Housewives' League,and housewives' leagues established in other cities?

Accepted Answer

A)  to gain women the right to vote 
B)  to help increase black economic opportunity 
C)  to help children have cleaner schools 
D)  to compel equal pay for teachers in black schools 
A)  to gain women the right to vote 
B)  to help increase black economic opportunity 
C)  to help children have cleaner schools 
D)  to compel equal pay for teachers in black schools

Question 7

What did the NAACP's fight over the Terrell law demonstrate?

Accepted Answer

A)  Racism was so entrenched in Texas that public schools could be completely shut down rather than accept black children. 
B)  Lynching could be legalized in several southern states. 
C)  Local and community involvement in NAACP activities was very important. 
D)  Whites would refuse to accept limits on the KKK's activities. 
A)  Racism was so entrenched in Texas that public schools could be completely shut down rather than accept black children. 
B)  Lynching could be legalized in several southern states. 
C)  Local and community involvement in NAACP activities was very important. 
D)  Whites would refuse to accept limits on the KKK's activities.

Question 8

During her career,Dr.Matilda Evans established two hospitals,founded a nursing training school,organized the Good Health Association of South Carolina,edited the Negro Health Journal,and served a term as president of the Palmetto Medical Association.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Who was black people's main ally within the Roosevelt administration?

Accepted Answer

A)  Franklin Roosevelt himself 
B)  no one; the Roosevelt administration was very unfriendly to blacks 
C)  Eleanor Roosevelt 
D)  Harry Truman 
A)  Franklin Roosevelt himself 
B)  no one; the Roosevelt administration was very unfriendly to blacks 
C)  Eleanor Roosevelt 
D)  Harry Truman

Question 10

How did black voting patterns begin to change after the first election of Franklin Roosevelt?

Accepted Answer

A)  Blacks continued to stay with the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln. 
B)  Blacks began to shift to the Democratic Party. 
C)  Blacks briefly formed their own separate party, just as they had formed separate churches and other institutions. 
D)  Blacks split over Roosevelt, with their support about evenly divided between him and Hoover in 1936. 
A)  Blacks continued to stay with the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln. 
B)  Blacks began to shift to the Democratic Party. 
C)  Blacks briefly formed their own separate party, just as they had formed separate churches and other institutions. 
D)  Blacks split over Roosevelt, with their support about evenly divided between him and Hoover in 1936.

Question 11

What was the media involved in the outcome of the Tuskegee study?

Accepted Answer

A)  A journalist was murdered by Tuskegee staff. 
B)  News reporters served as subjects in the study. 
C)  A news reporter broke the story to the public in 1972. 
D)  Television reporters conspired to hide the study from public view. 
A)  A journalist was murdered by Tuskegee staff. 
B)  News reporters served as subjects in the study. 
C)  A news reporter broke the story to the public in 1972. 
D)  Television reporters conspired to hide the study from public view.

Question 12

What did W.E.B.Du Bois criticize the NAACP for in 1934?

Accepted Answer

A)  not filing enough legal cases to end segregation 
B)  being divided and not helping Marcus Garvey before he was deported 
C)  not putting enough emphasis on economic development for black Americans 
D)  for their record of violent protest against both segregation and lynching 
A)  not filing enough legal cases to end segregation 
B)  being divided and not helping Marcus Garvey before he was deported 
C)  not putting enough emphasis on economic development for black Americans 
D)  for their record of violent protest against both segregation and lynching

Question 13

What did many blacks think about the role of the social sciences during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

A)  Many thought social scientists should provoke additional research and thought only; they should to stay away from political issues. 
B)  Many intellectuals thought that they might improve race relations. 
C)  Blacks refused to get into the social sciences during the Great Depression, as this field was dominated by racist whites. 
D)  The social sciences would prove that racism, and the inferiority of blacks, was an accurate view. 
A)  Many thought social scientists should provoke additional research and thought only; they should to stay away from political issues. 
B)  Many intellectuals thought that they might improve race relations. 
C)  Blacks refused to get into the social sciences during the Great Depression, as this field was dominated by racist whites. 
D)  The social sciences would prove that racism, and the inferiority of blacks, was an accurate view.

What was significant about the 1936 presidential election?

What is the connection between class position and the impact of the Great Depression upon the black community?

How were jobs allocated in the tobacco industry?

The limitations of the __________ administration to respond meaningfully to the economic crisis in the early 1930s doomed the Republican Party in the 1932 election.

Attorneys Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston helped Donald Gaines __________ win his case in 1938 for admission to the University of Maryland Law School.

What was a goal of the Detroit Housewives' League,and housewives' leagues established in other cities?

What did the NAACP's fight over the Terrell law demonstrate?

During her career,Dr.Matilda Evans established two hospitals,founded a nursing training school,organized the Good Health Association of South Carolina,edited the Negro Health Journal,and served a term as president of the Palmetto Medical Association.

Who was black people's main ally within the Roosevelt administration?

How did black voting patterns begin to change after the first election of Franklin Roosevelt?

What was the media involved in the outcome of the Tuskegee study?

What did W.E.B.Du Bois criticize the NAACP for in 1934?

What did many blacks think about the role of the social sciences during the Great Depression?

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Exam 18: Black Protest, the Great Depression, and the New Deal

What was significant about the 1936 presidential election?

What is the connection between class position and the impact of the Great Depression upon the black community?

How were jobs allocated in the tobacco industry?

The limitations of the __________ administration to respond meaningfully to the economic crisis in the early 1930s doomed the Republican Party in the 1932 election.

Attorneys Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston helped Donald Gaines __________ win his case in 1938 for admission to the University of Maryland Law School.

What was a goal of the Detroit Housewives' League,and housewives' leagues established in other cities?

What did the NAACP's fight over the Terrell law demonstrate?

During her career,Dr.Matilda Evans established two hospitals,founded a nursing training school,organized the Good Health Association of South Carolina,edited the Negro Health Journal,and served a term as president of the Palmetto Medical Association.

Who was black people's main ally within the Roosevelt administration?

How did black voting patterns begin to change after the first election of Franklin Roosevelt?

What was the media involved in the outcome of the Tuskegee study?

What did W.E.B.Du Bois criticize the NAACP for in 1934?

What did many blacks think about the role of the social sciences during the Great Depression?

Africa

Middle Passage

Black People in Colonial North America

Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle for Independence

African Americans in the New Nation

Life in the Cotton Kingdom

Free Black People in Antebellum America

Opposition to Slavery

Let Your Motto Be Resistance

And Black People Were at the Heart of It”

Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War

The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction

The Meaning of Freedom: The Failure of Reconstruction

White Supremacy Triumphant: African Americans in the South in the Late Nineteenth Century

African Americans Challenge White Supremacy

Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African Americans in the Early Twentieth Century

African Americans and the 1920s

Meanings of Freedom: Culture and Society in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s

The World War II Era and the Seeds of a Revolution

The Freedom Movement

Black Nationalism, Black Power, Black Arts

African Americans in the Twenty First Century

The Triumph of Black Politics: 1980 to the Present

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