"I Can Get a Job Today Even If We Got

question 10

Multiple Choice

"I can get a job today even if we got a depression.I don't mean that I wasn't on relief when things got tough because there was a time when everything was shut down and I had to get on relief for a job.It isn't so long ago I was working on WPA.Believe me it was a big help.But it wasn't the kind of a job I should have had because this town is Republican and I am a Republican and I was a good worker for the party-making voters and helping a lot of people out....Getting jobs for them.When it came my turn that I needed help the politicians told me that I had to go on relief-well,when I did I was handed a shovel and pick....Roosevelt is a damn good man....You know there shouldn't be a depression in this country ...the Democrats are in power and the Republicans won't let loose with the money.Well I say that the money men started this thing and I believe the government should make laws to force these capitalists to bring back prosperity.They can do it if they wanted to." Charles Fusco,whose testimony is featured in this excerpt,blamed what or whom for the Great Depression?

• A) Republican politicians
• B) Foreign immigrants who took American jobs
• C) African American migrants to the North who took jobs from whites
• D) Rich capitalists

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