The greatest achievement of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was to
a. create jobs and reduce unemployment as much as possible.
b. show how the American economy could be stabilized without economic growth.
c. curb the excesses and corruption of big business.
d. preserve American democracy during a Depression that led many nations into dictatorship.
e. establish class consciousness and class conflict as a legitimate basis for American politics.
d
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In the 1860 presidential election, the Republican party adopted an economic program that included all of the following features except
A) Federal aid for internal improvements B) A protective tariff. C) Free homesteads for settlers in the west. D) a national income tax. E) providing land to immigrants who were not yet citizens.
The leading force behind Kennedy's civil rights platform was
A) ?his own personal convictions. B) ?agitation from civil rights demonstrators. C) ?international pressure and foreign relations. D) ?the recognition that he would need the African-American vote to win the election. E) ?None of these are correct.
During Coolidge's presidency, government policy was set largely by the interests and values of
a. farmers and wage earners. b. the business community. c. racial and ethnic minorities. d. progressive reformers. e. conservative New Englanders.
In other versions of the Philoctetes myth (other than Sophocles' that is), who typically accompanies Odysseus to fetch Philoctetes?
a. Neoptolemus b. Achilles c. Hector d. Diomedes e. Steve