History A-Level
Laissez-faire vs Interventionism
What Laissez-faire vs Interventionism means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Government expanded from the laissez-faire approach of the Gilded Age to the interventionist federal state of the New Deal and Great Society.
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