Which Explains the Relative Success of the New Deal Coalition

question 54

Multiple Choice

Which explains the relative success of the New Deal coalition?

• A) resolution of the prisoner's dilemma by Teddy Roosevelt
• B) inclusion of new blocs of voters into the Democratic Party
• C) inclusion of new blocs of voters in the Republican Party
• D) creating the federal bureaucracy for the first time
• E) the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

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Definitions:

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