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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wilbur Kane remember most vividly about Franklin Roosevelt?

2. What accusation was made against Dr. Francis Townsend in his time?

3. Of what sixties-era organization is Robert A. Baird's son Peter a member?

4. Why does Billy Green say he was unaffected by the Depression?

5. Who was the head of the red-baiting committee that investigated New Deal administrators in the 1930's?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were the prisons affected by the Depression?

2. What strange dichotomy exists in Stanley Kell's interview in Honor and Humiliation?

3. What strange and dangerous episode regarding congressional testimony does C. Wright Patman make?

4. According to James Farley, how did Roosevelt alienate members of his own administration?

5. What safety concerns pervaded mines in the 1930's?

6. How did Wilbur Kane experience the Joe Louis fight against Max Schmeling?

7. How did The Cradle Will Rock become a lightning rod of controversy?

8. Why does Myrna Loy think she never got to meet Roosevelt in person?

9. Describe Harry Hartman's experiences repossessing belongings in the Depression.

10. What was the most controversial component of the New Deal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the Appalachian mining communities' attempts to unionize. How was this group of workers facing Depression-style injustice before the Depression started? What type of power did companies wield in Appalachia, and how did they enforce this power? Discuss how normal tension between management and would-be unionizing broke into full war in the 1930's? What was the result?

Essay Topic 2

The Franklin Roosevelt administration was a hothouse of young minds and genius fiscal conservatives. Write an essay about the crucible of ideas that this administration fostered. What initial ideas came out of this group, and how were they killed out of the gate? What politicking occurred within the administration, in terms of currying favor with the President? What actions did FDR take that alienated huge swaths of his supporters?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about the tactic used by union supporters in the 1930's Rust Belt. How did they effectively shut down plants, stopping the introduction of scabs and limiting the union-busting? What kind of press did these strikes get, and how was Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan leveled by these events? What effect did the passage of the Wagner Act have on the ability of workers to unionize?

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