The New Deal represented a commitment to traditional laissez-faire capitalism

A. True

B. False

False. The New Deal began the policy of a long-range

trend toward the abandonment of "laissez-faire"

capitalism, going back to the regulation of the

railroads in the 1880's, and the flood of state

and national reform legislation introduced in

the Progressive era of Theodore Roosevelt and

Woodrow Wilson.

a true