The Idea That a Society Should Intervene to Remedy Conditions

question 52

Multiple Choice

The idea that a society should intervene to remedy conditions affecting its citizens was a new development in the __________.

• A)period of social unrest of the 1960s
• B)period of urban-industrialization of the nineteenth century
• C)wartime years of the early 1940s
• D)economic depression years of the 1930s
• E)"enlightenment" of the late eighteenth century

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