What statement best describes the direct impact of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) Act of 1932?
A) The loans failed to put more money into the hands of workers.
B) The influx of cash helped put Americans back to work.
C) Workers competed fiercely for the jobs created as a result of the loans.
D) Workers received bonus checks from their employers, which they spent immediately.
E) Americans' confidence in the president was boosted.
A
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Match the 1948 presidential candidate with his party affiliation
A. Thomas Dewey 1. Dixicrat B. Henry Wallace 2. Republican C. Strom Thurmond 3. Libertarian 4. Progressive A) A-2, B-4, C-1 B) A-1, B-3, C-2 C) A-3, B-1, C-4 D) A-2, B-1, C-3
An inference about workers' lives that can most likely be drawn from the title page of the last issue of Lowell Offering is that Lowell workers
A) often engaged in political activities. B) spent a lot of free time with other workers. C) were good wives as well as good workers. D) were educated. E) were overworked.
Which of the following is NOT one of the impacts that primitive societies had on their natural environment?
A) They upset the balance of the waters so that their rivers flooded. B) They disturbed the state of nature when they began to farm. C) They drove some species of animals towards extinction. D) They changed their surroundings by hunting and gathering. E) They encouraged the proliferation of some animal and plant species.
The Taft-Hartley Act delivered a major blow to labor by
a. outlawing strikes by union and nonunion members in the steel, rubber, coal, and automobile industries. b. creating a serious inflationary spiral. c. banning labor's political action committees. d. outlawing closed (all-union) shops. e. forbidding union organizers to enter workplaces.