Author Question: What did the 1935 Social Security Act do? A) It provided workers a job if they were unemployed. ... (Read 147 times)

schs14 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

What did the 1935 Social Security Act do?

A) It provided workers a job if they were unemployed.
B) It offered workers' pensions, unemployment insurance and aid for the disabled.
C) It protected women's rights in the work place and guaranteed women retirement benefits.
D) It established housing where the unemployed could stay for free and receive free meals.
E) It guaranteed men the right to work and to bargain collectively.

Question 2

Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of the stock market in the months leading up to the October 1929 crash?

A) There was a frenzied upsurge in stock prices.
B) The market value of all stocks more than tripled in four years.
C) Stockbrokers lending buyers up to 75 percent of a stock's cost
D) Steep income-tax hikes suddenly cut the flow of money into the market.
E) Investment trusts lured novices into the market