This might be late but here is an explanation, the New Deal only helped with political agendas. It could not end the Great Depression.
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"Maine was sent to Havana Harbor to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban War of Independence. She exploded and sank on the evening of 15 February 1898, killing three-quarters of her crew. In 1898, a U.S. Navy board of inquiry ruled that the ship had been sunk by an external explosion from a mine."
Explanation:
B- The ratification of the fourteenth amendment.
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