22. Document Project 22: The Depression in Rural America

Quiz for Document 22.6 John P. Davis, A Black Inventory of the New Deal, 1935

Quiz for Document 22.6: John P. Davis, A Black Inventory of the New Deal, 1935

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. According to John P. Davis, who has suffered the most as a result of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?

AAA officials

Black farm laborers

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Farm owners

2. Why did Davis argue that the Agricultural Adjustment Act was particularly harmful to black sharecroppers and tenants?

It led to discriminatory policies and fraud in payments.

There were fewer representatives in the Department of Agriculture.

There were fewer black than white sharecroppers.

Black sharecroppers had an easier time finding a job.

3. What series of laws were African American tenant farmers already facing in their march toward civil rights?

Immigration Act of 1924

Alien & Sedition Acts

Black Codes

Jim Crow laws

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