WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He believed in a limited role for government and worried that excessive federal intervention posed a threat to capitalism and individualism. He felt that assistance should be handled on a local, voluntary basis. Accordingly, Hoover vetoed several bills that would have provided direct relief to struggling Americans.

Detailed explanation-2: -The biography for President Roosevelt and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves.

Detailed explanation-3: -The New Deal is often summed up by the “Three Rs”: relief (for the unemployed) recovery (of the economy through federal spending and job creation), and. reform (of capitalism, by means of regulatory legislation and the creation of new social welfare programs).

Detailed explanation-4: -Certain New Deal laws were declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that neither commerce nor taxing provisions of the Constitution granted the federal government authority to regulate industry or to undertake social and economic reform.