During the Depression, there were widespread calls for women to remove themselves from the labor
market to make room for unemployed men. Identify the statements that describe women during the
Depression. - correct answer ✔✔The profile of women was raised during the era by Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who both advised the president.
Millions of women were excluded for Social Security, as it did not include domestic servants and women
who did not work outside the home.
Many employers refused to hire women if their husbands already earned a "living wage."
Unlike the Public Works Administration, the Civil Works Administration directly hired construction
workers for government-funded and sponsored projects. - correct answer ✔✔True
insisted that constitutional guarantees of free thought and expression were essential to "nearly every
form of freedom" and therefore deserved special protection - correct answer ✔✔Supreme court
headed a Senate subcommittee that exposed the methods that employers used to combat unionization,
including spies, private police forces, and violence - correct answer ✔✔Robert M. La Follette Jr.
established the Civil Liberties Unit in the Department of Justice - correct answer ✔✔Attorney General
Frank Murphy
This union was organized based on the craft of a worker, and not by the industry in which the worker
worked. - correct answer ✔✔American Federation of Labor (AFL)
This organization used the sit-down strike as an effective tactic to halt production and force negotiations.
- correct answer ✔✔United Auto Workers (UAW)
This organization wanted to secure "economic freedom and industrial democracy" for American workers.
- correct answer ✔✔Congress of Industrial Workers (CIO)
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