The great depression
a. turned popular opinion against unions.
b. turned popular opinion in favor of unions.
c. destroyed the labor movement.
d. gave rise to the first unions.

The fourth answer is correct (A).

The Great Depression gave rise to the first unions, which were created under Franklin Rooseveld.

The destruction of jobs during the Great Depression led workers to unite around their common patterns of claims for better wages and living conditions.  Since then, the workers have won some important demands, such as the eight-hour working day and the pension benefit.

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.

answer: ‘no one should be discriminated against because he or she is not from a minority group’

because—> affirmative action means ‘a policy or program that provides opportunities for traditionally disadvantaged groups to them overcome the effects of discrimination’