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Question 1

benchmark

Answer 1

in 1932, 100,000 businesses collapsed, GNP fell from 203.6 billion to 144.2 billion

Question 2

knowledge

Answer 2

1. social security act 1935, aimed for old age pensions to be employer funded.
2. the national labour relations act, allowed employees to bargain through trade unions.

Question 3

analysis

Answer 3

1. widows, the elderly, and disabled were supported for the first time
2. trade unions officially had rights in law allowing for workers to speak up and be supported.

Question 4

analysis +

Answer 4

The SSA was inadequate and did not provide for the poor.

Question 5

evaluation

Answer 5

reform was successful, historian eric foner “ never in american history had a president exercised such power or so rapidly expanded the role of federal government”