As Suggested by Some Commentators, How Did Big Business Enable

question 44

Multiple Choice

As suggested by some commentators, how did big business enable individual freedom in the 1950s?

• A) Big business successfully lobbied for higher tariffs on consumer goods, which increased profits and drove American wages up.
• B) With large-scale production of goods came the freedom for individuals to choose among many items.
• C) Corporations in the 1950s offered a range of benefits to employees that freed them from economic uncertainty.
• D) The repeal of New Deal regulatory controls on investment banking allowed individual Americans to put their money into the stock market without restriction.

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