The National Recovery Administration of 1933 did all of the following EXCEPT
A. make child industrial labor illegal.
B. set a standard for the maximum hours one could work in a week.
C. increase competition between companies.
D. establish a minimum wage for labor.
E. set price and wage floors for most major industries.
Answer: C
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A) because their families forbade unionizing. B) the hostility from factory owners. C) that unions offered little that their communities did not provide. D) because they rarely worked outside the home.
By the mid-17th century, Istanbul was in a panic due to all the following reasons EXCEPT
A) a power struggle between the military and the sultan. B) scarce food supplies. C) Venetians had defeated the Ottoman fleet. D) eastern Anatolia was under the control of rebels. E) a power struggle between the ulama and sufis.
The great medical breakthrough of disinfectant was made by
A) Louis Pasteur B) Auguste Comte C) Dmitri Mendeleev D) Joseph Lister E) Charles Darwin
How might Reconstruction have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated?
A) African Americans might have gained political and economic rights sooner, since Lincoln was a strong supporter of equal rights for all Americans. B) Terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan would not have developed in the South and African Americans would not have been violently attacked. C) Women would also have gained the right to vote, since Lincoln would have encouraged this in the Fifteenth Amendment. D) Lincoln would have refused to allow any former Confederates to participate in the Republican government. E) Since Lincoln favored more leniency toward the South, readmission of southern states might have happened more rapidly.