QUESTION 1 The New Deal aimed at improving life in the South by: O Promoting unionization and helping farmers. O Helping farmers and creating new banks that helped Southerners. O Promoting unionization and creating new banks that helped Southerners. O Paying veterans a bonus and promoting unionization. QUESTION 2 In order to deal with the swell of jobless migrants from other states, what did state governments do during the G O They used the workers to build giant housing projects to help house the new migrants. O They arrested migrants and forced them to work in prison for free, O They used federal New Deal programs to offer them work and food. O They tried illegal means to deport people back to their home state and to block them from welfare programs

QUESTION 1 The New Deal aimed at improving life in the South by: O Promoting unionization and helping farmers. O Helping farmers and creating new banks that helped Southerners. O Promoting unionization and creating new banks that helped Southerners. O Paying veterans a bonus and promoting unionization. QUESTION 2 In order to deal with the swell of jobless migrants from other states, what did state governments do during the G O They used the workers to build giant housing projects to help house the new migrants. O They arrested migrants and forced them to work in prison for free, O They used federal New Deal programs to offer them work and food. O They tried illegal means to deport people back to their home state and to block them from welfare programs

Principles of Economics (MindTap Course List)

8th Edition

ISBN:9781305585126

Author:N. Gregory Mankiw

Publisher:N. Gregory Mankiw

Chapter19: Earnings And Discrimination

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