22. Document Project 22: The Depression in Rural America

Quiz for Document 22.8 Martin Torres, Protest Against Maltreatment of Mexican laborers in California, 1934

Quiz for Document 22.8: Martin Torres, Protest Against Maltreatment of Mexican laborers in California, 1934

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Why would Josephus Daniels and the United States more broadly care what the Mexican Regional Confederation of Labor had to say?

To forge a military alliance between the United States and Mexico

To discourage Mexican immigration during the war years

To adhere to President Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy

To get higher wages in Georgia through competition

2. According to Torres, what were Mexican farmworkers demanding?

Union membership

Higher wages

Less immigration

End of the New Deal

3. Who does the author invoke as a call to action on behalf of Mexican labor?

Herbert Hoover

Josephus Daniels

Mexican greasers

Franklin Roosevelt

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