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- This protected the right of workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board to settle disputes between employers and employees.
- The Social Security Act did not have a long-term impact on the American economy.
- The CCC reflected President Roosevelt's concern for the natural environment.
- The black cabinet was a group of influential African Americans who advised FDR during the New Deal era.
- FDR held fireside chats to update Americans on his New Deal policies
- Created through the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, this originally protected up to $5,000 of an individual's bank account.
- FDR did listen to his wife's advice
- Who was the first woman to serve in the cabinet?
- Lincoln's election victory in 1864 was sealed by Union military successes at
- True or False: A series of Union military victories just before the election of 1864 guaranteed Lincoln's victory over McClellan and ended the South's last hope.
- Officers could seize goods from accused smugglers without going to because of the Sugar Act .
- Why did the colonists believed that they should only be taxed by their own assemblies .
- Andrew Johnson, Lincoln's vice-presidential running mate in 1864, was a
- True or False: In terms of percentage of soldiers killed, the Civil War was the second deadliest war in American history after World War II.
- Homosapiens began to spread around the world around...
- Constitutional amendment, passed eight months after the Civil War, that permanently ended slavery throughout the United States.
- True or False: Lee's turn to defensive tactics in the last year of the war forced Grant into an offensive strategy that caused enormous casualties in direct frontal assaults on Confederate lines.
- An inexperienced leader in war but a genius at inspiring and directing his nation's cause.
- True or False: The Northern victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg effectively spelled doom for the Confederacy's efforts to win its independence on the battlefield.
- True or False: In the final year of the conflict, Grant and Sherman waged a total war that aimed to destroy the South's economy and morale as well as defeat its armies.