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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.