The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 43

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"It is impossible for the United States to preserve itself as a republic or as a democracy when 600 families own more of this Nation's wealth - in fact,twice as much - as all the balance of the people put together. Here is the whole sum and substance of the share-our-wealth movement:
1.Every family to be furnished by the Government a homestead allowance… of not less than one-third the average family wealth of the country...No person to have a fortune of more than 100 to 300 times the average family fortune…4.An old-age pension to the persons of 60…
8.The raising of revenue and taxes for the support of this program to come from the reduction of swollen fortunes from the top."
Huey Long,"Share Our Wealth," 1932
-The most successful narrative to be presented as an alternative to ideas like the one presented in the passage would come from

• A) President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
• B) supporters of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.
• C) civil rights protesters in the 1960s.
• D) Republicans in the 1980s.

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