THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S
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Pro-business tax breaks would solve the problems associated with urban poverty.
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Antitrust legislation would destroy the free market economy of the United States.
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Rugged individualism must be allowed to solve social inequality.
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Government must assume more responsibility for helping the poor.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was a guiding principle of the New Deal economic policies? Pro-business tax breaks would solve the problems associated with urban poverty.
Detailed explanation-2: -"A Better Relationship Between Management and Labor" This idea was a guiding principle in the National Industrial Recovery Act that sought to bring management, labor, and consumers together to create industrial codes that produced goods at a fair price, under fair working conditions, and resulted in a fair profit.
Detailed explanation-3: -Roosevelt’s “New Deal” aimed at promoting economic recovery and putting Americans back to work through Federal activism. New Federal agencies attempted to control agricultural production, stabilize wages and prices, and create a vast public works program for the unemployed.
Detailed explanation-4: -The New Deal restored a sense of security as it put people back to work. It created the framework for a regulatory state that could protect the interests of all Americans, rich and poor, and thereby help the business system work in more productive ways.
Detailed explanation-5: -The New Deal had three goals: relief, recovery, and reform. Relief meant that the president wanted to help those in crisis immediately by creating jobs, bread lines, and welfare. Recovery was aimed at fixing the economy and ending the Depression.