Chapter 15 Section 3: The New Deal Affects Many Groups

  1. According to Pedro J. Gonzales, how did people view Mexican immigrants?
  2. What opportunities were available for women during the New Deal period?  What limitations still existed at the time?
  3. Why was the “Black Cabinet” important to FDR’s administration?
  4. Why was FDR never fully committed to full civil rights for African-Americans?
  5. How did the New Deal discriminate against African-Americans?
  6. What actions did Africa-Americans take themselves to push civil rights onto the national agenda during the New Deal?
  7. How was the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 a challenge to prior government treatment of Native Americans as laid down by the Dawes Act of 1887?
  8. What groups made up the “New deal Coalition”?
  9. How did New Deal policies affect organized labor?
  10. Why did the CIO use sit-down strikes?  How effective were they?
  11. Why did urban voters support President Franklin D. Roosevelt?

Here is a link to an online Chapter 15: https://icomets.org/ush-textbook/ch15.pdf

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