Self-Help in Hard Times

What event in February 1919, involving a walkout of 100,000 working people, brought the city of Seattle to a halt for five days?

During the Seattle General Strike, how many neighborhood milk stations were set up by the strikers to provide for essential needs?

According to the Seattle mayor quoted in Chapter 15, what made the general strike a 'weapon of revolution' even though it was peaceful?

In the Centralia, Washington incident of 1919, who was Frank Everett?

During the 'Roaring Twenties,' what percentage of families made less than 1000 dollars a year, according to the text?

According to John Galbraith, what was the primary cause of the stock market crash of 1929?

By 1933, what was the estimated number of unemployed people in the United States?

What action did General Douglas MacArthur take against the Bonus Army in Washington D.C. in 1932?

According to the chapter, what were the two pressing needs that Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal reforms had to meet?

What was the name of the Pennsylvania-based self-help movement where unemployed miners dug coal on company property and sold it at a low rate?

In the spring and summer of 1934, what action by longshoremen on the West Coast quickly tied up two thousand miles of Pacific coastline?

What new and effective strike tactic began among rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, in the early thirties?

What was the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937?

According to Richard Cloward and Frances Piven's argument in 'Poor People's Movements,' when did factory workers have their greatest influence and exact the most substantial concessions from government?

How many American workers were involved in strikes during World War II, despite the no-strike pledges of the AFL and CIO?

The minimum wage law of 1938 established a minimum wage of how much for the first year?

What was the purpose of the Federal Arts, Theatre, and Writers' Projects during the New Deal?

Despite the New Deal reforms, what was the situation for most black people in the United States?

What event on March 19, 1935, demonstrated the explosive conditions in black communities even as New Deal reforms were being passed?

In Langston Hughes's poem 'Let America Be America Again,' who are the voices that say America 'never has been yet'?

What was the initial number of shipyard workers who went on strike, starting the chain of events that led to the Seattle General Strike?

In the poem by Anise about the Seattle strike, what was it that scared the 'business men' the most?

In John Steinbeck's novel 'The Grapes of Wrath,' what crime did a homeless, hungry man witness?

What was the estimated number of casualties (killed and injured) after General MacArthur's army dispersed the Bonus Army?

In the 1934 Minneapolis teamsters' strike, what unique form of support did farmers provide to the strikers and the city's people?

How many sit-down strikes were recorded in the year 1937, following the 48 that occurred in 1936?

What was the purpose of the Wagner Act of 1935, from the government's point of view, according to the chapter's analysis?

How much did unemployment fall during the New Deal, from 13 million at its start?

What event does the chapter credit with putting 'almost everyone to work' after the New Deal's partial success?

What was the population of black people living in Harlem in the 1930s?

What was the response of many employers to the wave of sit-down strikes in 1937?

According to the text, what was the estimated population of the United States in 1900, which had grown from 31 million in 1860?

Who was the black farmer from Alabama whose life story, as told in 'All God's Dangers,' illustrates the struggles of sharecroppers and his involvement in the Sharecroppers Union?

The CIO, or Congress of Industrial Organizations, was formed after breaking away from what other major labor federation?

What was the significance of the year 1944 for labor strikes, according to Jeremy Brecher?

What did Yip Harburg, the songwriter of 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?', say the song was really about?

After the stock market crash, by what percentage did industrial production fall?

What was the result of the textile strike in Rhode Island in 1922, led by Italian and Portuguese workers?

In the Gastonia textile strike of 1929, the National Textile Workers Union was notable for what characteristic?

Which New Deal program was an unusual example of government-owned enterprise, creating dams and hydroelectric plants?

What was the outcome of the 1937 sit-down strike at the Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan?

What was the name of the organization formed in 1919 by William Z. Foster to organize steelworkers?

How many shipyard workers were initially on strike in Seattle, before the general strike began?

According to Merle Curti, why were the protests of the poor in the 1920s not widely or effectively felt?

What was the 'Mellon Plan' of 1923?

What was the average annual income of a sharecropper in 1935?

How many self-help organizations with over 300,000 members existed across thirty-seven states by the end of 1932?

What was the primary difference between the Social Security Act and the housing programs of the New Deal?

In the general strike in San Francisco in 1934, how many workers were estimated to be on strike, immobilizing the city?

What happened to the IWW leadership during the period when the Seattle General Strike occurred in 1919?