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UShist 7.3
Quiz Practice
Term | Definition |
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John Steinbeck | Wrote the Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men |
Marian Anderson | Opera singer |
Frances Perkins | Secretary of Labor in 1933, first female cabinet officer |
Dust Bowl | Great Plains drought in the 30s--caused many farmers to move to California. |
Sit-down strike | Protesting workers sit idle to protest |
Liberal | Believes that government action can lead to social and economic progress |
Foreclosure | A bank takes over property when a borrower cannot make payments. |
Panhandling | Another term for begging for money or food. |
Eleanor Roosevelt | Held press conferences for women reporters |
African Americans | Many left the Republican Party and supported the Democratic Party in the 1930s because the New Deal seemed to offer them more. |