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HY 121 Chapter 21 InquisitiveAnalyze the following map.
What does it reveal about the Dust Bowl from 1935 to 1940? - correct answer ✔✔Correct:
- In 1938, almost half of the state of Kansas was impacted by severe wind erosion.
- Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma were all impacted by the most severe wind
erosion during the Dust Bowl.
- Of the six states that experienced the Dust Bowl between 1935 and 1940, Nebraska was the state that
suffered the least severe impact from wind erosion during the Dust Bowl.
Incorrect:
- New Mexico was not impacted by wind erosion at the beginning of the Dust Bowl.
Under the leadership of Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, the administration launched the
Indian New Deal. Identify the statements that describe the Indian New Deal. - correct answer
✔✔Correct:
- It ended the policy of forced assimilation and allowed Indians unprecedented cultural autonomy.
- It ended the policy of dividing Indian lands into small plots for individual families and selling the rest.
Incorrect:
- It allowed Indians to govern their own affairs entirely and disregard national laws.
- It drastically improved the life of Indians on previously defined "poor" reservations.
In 1942, the National Resources Planning Board found that Blacks were enjoying an improved standard
of living throughout the United States due to higher employment opportunities and a substantial
increase in the value of aid distributed in New Deal programs they were eligible for. - correct answer
✔✔False
While the American version of the welfare state created by the Social Security Act of 1935 was a radical
departure from previous U.S. government policy, it excluded some employed groups, covered fewer
citizens, and was less well funded than that of its European counterparts. - correct answer ✔✔True
, How did the events of the 1930s transform ideas about freedom in the United States? - correct answer
✔✔Correct:
- The New Deal made public guarantees of economic security central to the idea of freedom.
- The decade discredited the idea that social progress depended on the unrestrained pursuit of wealth
and that poverty was self-inflicted.
Incorrect:
- The New Deal radically expanded freedom's historical boundaries by bringing many benefits to rural
tenant farmers, Blacks, Native Americans, and women.
- Social and political activism superseded the labor movement, and the decade's primary goal became
expanding access to political engagement.
Mechanized agriculture had a damaging effect, intensifying the Dust Bowl. - correct answer ✔✔True
For years, many Native Americans had pressed for a return of their lands and viewed self-determination
as foundational to freedom. The Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) acknowledged these goals but in a
limited way.
Which of the following policies included in the IRA is an example of a limitation on the benefits it gave to
Native Americans? - correct answer ✔✔The law required tribes to adopt constitutions that complied
with the expectations of U.S. government officials
In 1938, Roosevelt put Keynesian economic theory to work by increasing the U.S. budget deficit,
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. - correct answer ✔✔True
How did the Indian New Deal attempt to improve reservation economic conditions? - correct answer
✔✔Correct:
- The Indian New Deal provided training opportunities.
- The Indian Division of the Civil Conservation Corps employed 80,000 Native Americans to build fire
towers and schools.
Incorrect:
- The Indian New Deal encouraged tribes to establish governing councils and adopt new constitutions.
- Federal government officials retained control over the distribution of pay for Indians working in the
Civilian Conservation Corps and held back portions of their pay to distribute when they decided.
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