What key roles did waterways play in early settlements?

The correct answer is transportation of goods, popular homestead location, and trading opportunities.  

The key roles that waterways played in early settlements were the transportation of goods, popular homestead location, and trading opportunities.

Early settlements in North America used the waterways for transportation of goods and people as well as for trade. In the East coast of America, there were trade ports or trade centers where people exported their products, mainly to Europe. Transportation by water was an important element for the growth of the region.

1. yes it was the new deal introduced lots of regulations to workers, such as the national labour relations act of 1935 which workers to form unions and protected the members from other laws as well as forcing businesses to listen to the unions and their workers

2.the new deal had a lot of great ideas. but when fdr created the national industrial recovery act. they set prizes and work hours for the workers. the workers made more money ($.40 rather than $.20) but because they did not work as much they would end up making less money. after a while the supreme court found this act to be un-constitutional. but sense the people weren’t   making as much money they could not afford the products. even though the new deal was taken away in 1939 because the government became to powerful, there are still remnants of it in our government. national labor relations, social security, etc… the new deal alone did not end the depression but it the u.s.a dramatically and set them on the right track to recover and become the powerhouse of a country it is today.

3. yes it did bring some relief to those who were willing and able to work and it assisted in terms of creating new and strengthening existing infrastructure.  

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