THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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The government ought to nationalize the country’s wealth and natural resources
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The new laws gave the president too much authority
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The enormous expansion of the federal government was a step toward communism
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The high cost of the new programs would lead to higher taxes on the poor
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Detailed explanation-1: -Critics who thought the New Deal went too far claimed which of the following? The government should nationalize the country’s wealth and natural resources. The new laws gave the president too much authority. The enormous expansion of the federal government was a step toward communism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Taft, powerful Republican Senator from Ohio from 1939 to 1953. Taft was the leader of the Republican Party’s conservative wing; he consistently denounced the New Deal as “socialism” and argued that it harmed America’s business interests and gave ever-greater control to the central government in Washington.
Detailed explanation-3: -Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Terms in this set (12) FDR had to agree to too many compromises for political power. Couldn’t end segregation. The New Deal “relief and reform” only preserved capitalism. Didn’t change the unequal distribution of wealth.
Detailed explanation-5: -The New Deal had three goals: relief, recovery, and reform. Relief meant that the president wanted to help those in crisis immediately by creating jobs, bread lines, and welfare. Recovery was aimed at fixing the economy and ending the Depression.