How did the Great Depression affect minorities?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: In a word, badly. The text provides considerable evidence of whites forcing blacks,
Mexicans, and Asians out of their jobs. Students should be struck by the comment of a California deputy sheriff who compared Mexican workers to pigs. The rise in racial violence was illustrated by the rise in the lynching rate and in efforts at quasi-legal lynchings like the case of the Scottsboro Nine.
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By 1900, legislative acts that regulated the horrors of child labor were
a. successful at ending the practice in the United States. b. passed by state legislatures in 90 percent of the states. c. supported by most industrialists in the East. d. not effectively enforced by authorities.
A key reason that geometry and mathematics are important in many philosophical traditions is that
a. these disciplines also have practical uses for everyday life. b. these areas of study are essential to understand the movement of the stars and planets. c. they help to develop the logical faculties of the human mind. d. they show that reality can be invisible and untouchable, yet open to reason.
Which of the following CANNOT be associated with the agricultural crisis of the late Republic?
a. Latifundia, worked by slaves, squeezed out the peasantry. b. Egyptian grain undermined Roman agricultural prices. c. Prolonged warfare in Italy had destroyed numerous farms. d. Wars had forced Rome's farmer-soldiers to seriously neglect their farms. e. The agricultural crisis created a vast poor, alienated, and embittered class.
The term for an approach that simultaneously considers multiple categories of identity, difference, and disadvantage is ______.
A. social constructionism B. multiracial C. intersectionality D. gender schema theory