The New Deal Homework Quiz 1. The streets of New York City were clogged with 8,000 what per day? 800 thousand cause per day. 2. Where was the largest black community in the United States in this time period? Holmes Tenements 3. Unlike on 5th Avenue, the Great Depression hit particularly hard in which 2 NYC neighborhoods? 4. Which NY congressman defied the policies of Herbert Hoover and pushed the federal government to aid the urban poor, labor conditions, housing, economic conditions etc.? 5. In his inaugural speech, what does FDR say he will ask Congress for? 6. How did FDR handle the crisis when people began to flock to banks in 1933 and withdraw their money? 7. What are the Fire Side Chats and why were they important? 8. What happened when the banks reopened after the banking holiday? 9. What did FDR do in the first 100 days of the New Deal? 10. What was the Civilian Conservation Corps? 11. What was the role of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and who led it? What did FDR think about public relief? 12. What was the National Recovery Administration? 13. The video highlights that workers in which NYC industry used the NRA to form unions and bargain collectively for higher wages & better working conditions? 14. Why did Senator Thomas Gore dislike FDR’s New Deal? 15. Who ran NYC in the 1930s and why did FDR want them ousted? 16. Who ultimately ousted Walker from mayoral office and how? 17. What was the Fusion Party and who did it pick as its candidate for mayor of NYC? What was his platform? 18. What was the outcome of the New York City election? 19. How many people were out of work in the country as winter approached? 20. What was the Civil Works Administration and who helped to create it? What challenges did it bring in paying workers? 21. _______ out of every 5 civil works jobs were secured by Fiorello La Guardia for New York. 22. In what way was discrimination present within these programs? How did La Guardia make a difference in other hiring areas? 23. Who did La Guardia hire as City Parks Commissioner and what special project was he given control of? 24. What was the PWA and who was in charge of it? 25. With whom was Robert Moses feuding for nearly a decade, why, and why does it matter? 26. What was the unemployment rate in Harlem? 27. What was segregation like in NYC in the 1930s, particularly in stores? What was the “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work Campaign”? Who led the movement? What was the response by businesses & the courts? 28. That fall, 1 in every _____ families in NYC depended on relief, as ________ new applications were processed daily. 29. What did La Guardia do when the money from the state and the national government proved not to be enough? What did he call “the dodgers” of this action? 30. For what was FDR’s NRA criticized? 31. Who were the Schechter Brothers and what did they do to undermine the NRA? 32. Why did Roosevelt finally end his vendetta against Moses? 33. In what ways were the conditions right for a major problem in Harlem to erupt in spring of 1935? 34. How did the Harlem riot change La Guardia’s treatment of the people of Harlem and their economic problems? 35. What was the Works Progress Administration and how did it help to improve the country? 36. By 1936 NYC was receiving what fraction of the WPA budget for the entire nation? 37. What event finally happened on 7/11/1936?
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