During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the national government
a. provided health care to Americans on a temporary basis, as a means of alleviating economic hardships.
b. provided vast sums to the states so they could meet their citizens' welfare needs.
c. asserted the power to regulate the nation's economy.
d. provided vast sums to business firms to keep them out of bankruptcy.
e. utilized laissez-faire capitalism in its policies.