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How did the Great Depression impact African Americans? Select the two correct answers.
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Declining agricultural prices led to lower wages and massive layoffs.
Declining agricultural prices led to lower wages and massive layoffs.
A growing number of racial violence cases resulted in new civil rights legislation.
A growing number of racial violence cases resulted in new civil rights legislation.
White workers conspired to have African Americans fired so they could access those jobs.
White workers conspired to have African Americans fired so they could access those jobs.
African American landowners fared the same as their white counterparts.
African American landowners fared the same as their white counterparts.
The Scottsboro Trial highlighted the inherent equality of the justice system.
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- Declining agricultural prices led to lower wages and massive layoffs.
- White workers conspired to have African Americans fired so they could access those jobs.
Brief why: Falling farm prices devastated sharecroppers and tenant farmers (many Black), and during the Depression white workers often pushed to displace Black workers—“last hired, first fired” plus violence and discrimination—to gain scarce jobs.
- White workers conspired to have African Americans fired so they could access those jobs.
Brief why: Falling farm prices devastated sharecroppers and tenant farmers (many Black), and during the Depression white workers often pushed to displace Black workers—“last hired, first fired” plus violence and discrimination—to gain scarce jobs.
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