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The Populist Party

Question 5 • LA-US History A ? Distance Learning

How did the Supreme Court case Lochner v. New York limit reform?

Answer
A
It overturned a state law that set a legal maximum workday to ten hours.
B
It said that workplace laws should be left up to the federal government.
C
It said that workplace laws could not be enacted until 1930.

Explanation

In Lochner v. New York (1905), the Supreme Court struck down a New York law limiting bakery workers’ hours, ruling that it interfered with freedom of contract. This limited reform by preventing the state from enforcing that workplace-hours law. Choice A correctly describes the ruling; the Court did not say workplace laws belonged only to the federal government or ban them until 1930.

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