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SAVANNAHHOOPER23 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Activists, scholars and politicians mused about why socialism did not take hold in America, giving all of the following as reasons except

a. American workers' refusal to see themselves as a separate class.
b. the western frontier provided a safety valve that allowed workers to leave oppressive employers.
c. law and government policy prevented workers from organizing and advocating for higher wages and better working conditions.
d. workers' remarkably high standard of living.
e. workers had full political economy long before the forces of industrialization developed.

Question 2

Franklin Roosevelt won the election in 1944 primarily because

a. Republican Thomas E. Dewey was an ardent isolationist and deep skeptic of the war effort.
b. labor unions turned out for Roosevelt.
c. Harry Truman was his running mate.
d. questions arose regarding Thomas E. Dewey's honesty.
e. the war was going well.