What were affirmative action programs originally designed to encourage?

increasing diversity in public institutions and businesses

Explanation:

Affirmative actions are special and temporary acts or measures, taken or determined by the state, spontaneously or compulsorily, with the aim of eliminating historically accumulated inequalities. The idea behind affirmative action is that there was not enough diversity in the institutions, and the intent was to correct it by law.

the first action that caused many creek indians to turn against william mcintosh was when mcintosh a) supported the united states during the creek war of 1813–1814. b) attempted to stop the sale of creek land to the u.s. government. c) seized control of over 1,000 acres of land belonging to the creeks.