Did the New Deal Help?
- Created by: Sophia2902
- Created on: 10-12-17 23:55
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- Native Americans
- Indian Recognition Act 1934 (led by John Collier) allowed them to live traditionally
- Did the New Deal help?
- Women
- 1934, the first woman was elected into Senate
- Women held important jobs like the head of the NRA, federal judges and ambassadors
- Agencies like the TVA, NRA and CCC benefitted women
- More than 75% of US school boards refused to employ married women
- Men's salary was double that of women's
- More men benefitted from the CCC
- Many women who worked in the 1920s lost their jobs in the 1930s
- African Americans
- Discrimination against black employees in the defence industry was made illegal
- Some were given leading govt jobs
- Lynching remained legal
- Armed forces were still segregated
- More than 50% of black city workers were still unemployed
- The NRA allowed employers to pay black people less
- 65% of blacks were employed in unprotected jobs like farming
- Women
- 7 million acres of land returned
- Jobs were given in the Indian Bureau
- Constitution of 1935 did not give them the control they wanted of their lives
- The land returned to them was of poor quality
- They still suffered prejudice and discrimination
- They still lived in poverty
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