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1
Which of the following was NOT a factor in the rise of California's agricultural industry?
A)its diversity of climates
B)its diversity of soils
C)investment in migrant housing
D)development of scientific farming techniques
2
Agriculture remained California's largest single industry until
A)the 1920s.
B)1930s.
C)1940s.
D)1950s.
3
Interest in migratory farm workers temporarily increased because of
A)the AFL lettuce packers strike of 1936.
B)the interest of big business in their plight.
C)publication of Factories in the Field and The Grapes of Wrath.
D)all of these.
4
The bracero program failed because it
A)depressed wages.
B)destroyed the local labor market.
C)weakened the power of the domestic laborer.
D)all of these
5
Growers supported the bracero program in part because it helped them
A)block the power of local workers to unionize.
B)handle costs during years of low crop output.
C)avoid public criticism that the braceros were underpaid.
D)offer medical and emergency support to field workers.
6
The National Farm Workers Association was
A)formed by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the early 1960s.
B)backed totally by Governor Ronald Reagan.
C)merged with the AWOC to form the United Farmworkers Organizing Committee in 1966.
D)formed by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the early 1960s and merged with the AWOC to form the United Farmworkers Organizing Committee in 1966.
7
The pivotal moment for the NFWA was
A)dockworker support for grape pickers.
B)a public boycott of S & W Foods.
C)Communist support for its activities.
D)the Delano grape harvest strike of 1965-66.





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