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President Hoover Applauds Limited Government 1931, And President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Nathaniel Ortiz

HISTORY 152

Professor Jonathan Rosenberg

Section Leader Hamilton Craig

December 2022

Paper #3 Documents: “President Herbert Hoover Applauds Limited Government 1931” and “President Franklin D. Roosevelt Says Government Must Act, 1933”

President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were both significant government figures during the time they were president. During the time both were presidents, the United States was in a crisis known as the Great Depression which lasted from the early 1930s to the early 1940s, ending during World War II. The great depression is known to many as a time of economic disaster. During this time there was a stock market crash, the money supply plummeted, banks failed, and …show more content…

All the effects of the great depression were a chain reaction but that did not affect everyone to the same degree. An economic downfall that led to the value of money plummeting, led to unemployment and wage drops. Those wage drops and unemployment led to homelessness and the closure of many company factories. I believe that very effect the great depression had was connected to a different effect like a chain.

President Herbert Hoover was the president during the beginning of the great depression. His views on what can fix the problems differed from President Frankling D, Roosevelts. Hoovers opinions were that Federal government should not get involved with certain problems within the country. More specifically, he believes that they should not take responsibility for the things that the state or local governments can because it threatens the meaning of “self-government” (Hoover, …show more content…

Roosevelt had become president right after Herbert Hoover in 1933. FDR’s opinions on what can help the great depression was the opposite of Hoover. Unlike Hoover's opinion on no federal intervention, FDR believed that the federal government should butt in. His opinion on the support that can be given is direct government support. He believed that the things that cannot be done by the people, can be done by the government such as supplying jobs. FDR says, “Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself...” (Roosevelt, 227-228). The first problem Roosevelt wants to fix is the unemployment the country is experiencing. Roosevelt had produced the idea of The New Deal which was not just one program but a series of

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