Freedman's Bureau Act: To coordinate efforts to protect the rights of former slaves and provide them with education and medical care, Congress creates the Freedmen's Bureau. One of the bureau's most important functions is to oversee labor contracts between ex-slaves and employers
Correct answer: Creating the Environmental Protection Agency
Explanation/detail:
The formal recognition of China and Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) were <u>foreign</u> policy initiatives (not domestic).
As to interest rates, during the Nixon presidency, the Federal Reserve chairman, Arthur Burns, had begun raising interest rates. In 1971, President Nixon exerted pressure on Burns and "the Fed" to keep interest rates down, but that only led to a decade of high inflation that caused other economic problems. So that was not a success for Nixon.
<u>About the Environmental Protection Agency</u>
President Nixon signed an executive order establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. Subsequent committee hearings in the House of Representatives and the Senate ratified Nixon's order for the creation of the agency.
Environmental issues had been gaining much attention during the 1960s, and the need for oversight became clear. As Lily Rothman reported in a TIME magazine article:
- <em>An oil spill off the California coast in 1969 coated 400 square miles with slime and killed hundreds of birds. Scientists announced that auto exhaust was at high enough levels in some places that it could cause birth defects. The city of St. Louis smelled, as one resident put it, “like an old-fashioned drugstore on fire.”</em>
<em>- </em>"Here's Why the Environmental Protection Agency Was Created," <em>TIME, </em>March 22, 2017
Nixon's administration felt it necessary to take action to address pollution problems in the American environment.
"Correlation does not imply causation" This phrase is used in statistics <span>to emphasize that a </span>correlation<span> between two variables </span>does not imply<span> that one causes the other. There could be always a third factor involved.</span>
The mass media is sometimes referred to as the "fourth branch of the government" since it has a significant influence on the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the government. The mass media's responsibility of keeping the people informed is a great and essential contribution to a democratic government.
The best answer is <span>increased as more US troops went to fight in Vietnam.
LBJ's policy of "escalation", sending more troops and resources into Vietnam, started to quickly shift public opinion against the US presence in Vietnam. Although initially considered unpatriotic to protest the war, gradually more and more Americans began to oppose the war. </span>
