A) California
B) Texas
C) Michigan
D) New England
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A) It provided jobs for all able-bodied workers.
B) It was often called the Time and Money Act.
C) It set standards for wages and hours.
D) It explicitly exempted women.
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A) It met most cities' needs for affordable housing.
B) It provided free housing for over half a million Americans.
C) It made 160,000 residences available to poor people at affordable rents.
D) It symbolized the federal government's retreat from providing decent urban housing.
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A) They found it easy to integrate into American society.
B) They experienced substantially less discrimination in New Deal programs than did other minority groups.
C) They experienced a dramatic increase in wages through employment in New Deal programs.
D) Thousands were deported, many with their American-born children.
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A) The New Freedom
B) The Square Deal
C) The Works Progress Program
D) The New Deal
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A) Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
B) Committee for Industrial Organization
C) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
D) court-packing plan
E) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
F) fireside chats
G) National Recovery Administration (NRA)
H) New Deal coalition
I) Social Security
J) underconsumption
K) Wagner Act
L) Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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A) through a progressive tax on workers.
B) with tax contributions from workers and their employers.
C) by raising income taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
D) through the federal government's general tax fund.
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A) became unnecessary when four conservative judges retired.
B) faced great opposition but was ultimately successful.
C) was ruled unconstitutional by the sitting Supreme Court justices.
D) was ratified by Congress but not by the required number of states.
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A) Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
B) Committee for Industrial Organization
C) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
D) court-packing plan
E) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
F) fireside chats
G) National Recovery Administration (NRA)
H) New Deal coalition
I) Social Security
J) underconsumption
K) Wagner Act
L) Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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A) He had served as the Republican mayor of New York City.
B) He had gained political experience as he worked his way through college.
C) He had served as governor of New York.
D) He had been lieutenant governor and then a two-term the governor of New Jersey.
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A) Fascist aggression in Germany
B) Nationalist expansion in Japan
C) His paralysis from polio
D) The terror caused by the Depression
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A) Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
B) Committee for Industrial Organization
C) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
D) court-packing plan
E) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
F) fireside chats
G) National Recovery Administration (NRA)
H) New Deal coalition
I) Social Security
J) underconsumption
K) Wagner Act
L) Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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A) Large businesses that employed more workers were excluded from the agency's charge.
B) The codes written by industry leaders tended to serve the interests of corporations only.
C) The code system was so complicated that neither the government nor the corporations could interpret it effectively.
D) The government's NRA public relations campaign actually discouraged Americans from patronizing NRA businesses.
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A) He held daily press conferences at the White House.
B) He broadcast his reassuring fireside chats on the radio.
C) He strong-armed Congress to pass all the bills his administration proposed.
D) He issued unemployment checks to needy families.
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A) It prevented the United States from turning toward authoritarian solutions to the nation's economic crisis.
B) It ended the Depression and eliminated the class hierarchy in the United States.
C) It weakened presidential power and strengthened the military-industrial complex.
D) It ended the Depression and led directly to the United States' involvement in World War II.
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