1. The Great Depression
... Party. The basic program of the NRA was simple. The government would allow business and industry to "stabilize" prices, that is, fix them, through "codes of fair competition." In return, workers would get higher wages and their right to organize and bargain collectively would be recognized. Believing the NRA program could boost the economy rapidly into a recovery ... the Democrats. The big industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest, Which had been Republican strongholds through the 1920's, now produced huge Democratic majorities. Social as well as economic considerations motivated t...
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