Slave codes were
A. colonial laws that established distinctions between white servants and African slaves
A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.
A couple months after he was elected, the stock market crashed and the Great Depression was beginning. Unlike Andrew Mellon and Calvin Coolidge who believed that the federal government should keep its hands off the economy, Herbert Hoover believed that some action from the federal government is necessary.
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