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CLEP US History II

Category - Labor

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Immediately after becoming president in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the National Industrial Recovery Act, which:
  1. Established wage and work-hour restrictions for unionized workers.
  2. Protected the legal right of workers to organize into unions.
  3. Established that laborers could work an unlimited number of hours.
  4. Prohibited workers from organizing into unions.
  5. Established a maximum hourly wage.
Explanation
Answer: B - President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933 to help get laborers back to work during the Great Depression by protecting their legal right to organize into unions. Roosevelt later spurred more job growth with various New Deal agencies putting people back to work on public-works projects. Because of this act, union membership skyrocketed during World War II.
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