Author Question: The U.S. government was vigorously protective of its capitalist origins and resisted assuming broad ... (Read 26 times)

go.lag · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

The U.S. government was vigorously protective of its capitalist origins and resisted assuming broad welfare state functions, until

a. WWI made people aware of the government-funded programs in Europe.
b. environmental protection and conservation became a policy priority.
c. the Great Depression exposed the harsh realities that unfettered capitalism can occasionally impose on the masses.
d. the Johnson administrations Great Society initiatives of the 1960s.
e. the influence of government labor motivated all Americans to demand benefits.

Question 2

What is an economic system in which all or most of the means of production are owned by the community as a whole?

a. socialism
b. capitalism
c. communism
d. individualism
e. libertarianism