1) Texans who played major roles in the national political scene included all of the following EXCEPT:

a) Houston banker Jesse Jones—chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
b) Texas congressman and Speaker of the House before becoming Franklin Roosevelt’s first vice president—John Nance Garner
c) chairman of the Senate Un-American Activities Committee--Martin Dies
d) majority leader and Speaker of the House for two decades—Sam Rayburn

Hint:  pages 325-26

2) Which statement about Congressman Maury Maverick is NOT true?

a)  Maury Maverick was a staunch New Dealer.
b)  Maury Maverick was defeated for reelection due to his anti-labor and anti-civil rights positions.
c)  Maury Maverick was elected mayor of San Antonio after his defeat in the congressional race of 1938.
d)  Maury Maverick served as an able administrator of wartime mobilization agencies.

Hint:  page 326

3) .  All of the following occurred as Texans as well as Americans throughout the nationconfronted the Depression EXCEPT:

a) A young New Dealer who became mayor of San Antonio headed the National Youth Administration for two years at the age of 26.
b) Civilian Conservation Corps camps were segregated, serving 400 black Texans, less than .05 percent of the total number of Texans enrolled in 1935.
c) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation guaranteed deposits up to $5000 and periodically audited the insured banks.  Along with the Federal Reserve System that controlled interest rates, public confidence was restored in banking.
d) Only three states received more New Deal monies than Texas from March 4, 1933 to January 1, 1938.

Hint:  pages 328-332

4) Which statement about Emma Tenayuca is NOT correct?

a)  Emma Tenayuca was an organizer for the Workers Alliance of America.
b)  Emma Tenayuca was employed as a pecan sheller.
c)  Emma Tenayuca was spokesperson for those protesting alleged beatings by the Border Patrol.
d)  Emma Tenayuca was a labor organizer who instigated a walkout of Tejano pecan shellers in 1938

Hint: pages 334-35

5) The segregation of Mexican American schoolchildren in Texas was challenged by:

a) the State Court of Civil Appeals
b) Hernandez v. Bastrop Independent School District
c) Del Rio Independent School District v. Salvatierra
d) the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund

Hint:  page 335

6) Which statement about the National Youth Administration is NOT correct? 

a) The NYA employed needy high school, undergraduate, and graduate students on a part-time basis.
b)  Lyndon Johnson was a young state director in Texas who showed the same racial prejudice as most white Texans did in the early part of the twentieth century, scarcely providing black students a chance at employment.
c)  Lyndon Johnson was the youngest NYA director in the nation.
d) Lyndon Johnson headed the NYA in Texas for two years.

Hint:  page 330

7) All of the following agencies were considered recovery and relief measures EXCEPT:

a)  Social Security Act
b)  Federal Emergency Relief Administration
c)  Works Progress Administration
d)  National Industrial Recovery Act

Hint:  page 330-37

8) Governor _________’s antilabor stance that coincided with conservatism on the national level ended the New Deal in Texas.

a) Ross S. Sterling
b)  James V. Allred
c)  W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel
d)  Miriam “Ma” Ferguson

Hint:  pages 340-343

9) Lyndon B. Johnson began his political career in 1931 as congressional aide to Congressman ___________.

a)  Andrew Jackson Houston
b)  Richard Mifflin Kleberg
c)  Morris Sheppard
d)  Martin Dies

Hint:  page 342

10) Which of these statements was NOT true in regard to the New Deal’s impact on minorities.

a) Blacks had a higher percentage of their population on relief and employment rolls than did whites.
b)  Local relief agencies placed blacks only in unskilled jobs; at the same time the average in monthly relief payments was smaller than that of whites in Houston.
c) The “Mexican American Generation” was much more bicultural—Americanized during the formative years between World War I and the 1920s—and activist than the “Immigrant Generation” who had arrived in Texas during the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution. Even so, under the New Deal, women encountered discriminatory barriers in employment.
d)  Federal relief in the form of employment was extended to non-citizens when proof of citizenship was not available.

Hint:  pages 333-36