New Deal Dbq

The catastrophic stock market crash on October 24th, 1929 brought about widespread panic and the onset of incomparable consequences for America. From this crash, the Great Depression arose which was a long period of increased unemployment, poverty and deflation. The onset of the Depression left society blaming the government and seeking relief from the increased levels of poverty. Due to society being worried and troubled, the government, in which Republican Herbert Hoover was president, took a conservative approach toward reconciling America’s problems, while Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt chose the liberal approach by establishing the New Deal.
These two approaches started a division of the country and debates began over which
In the Republican Document 24-5, Herbert Hoover and Minnie Hardin criticize Roosevelt’s New Deal. Hoover analyzes the New Deal programs and relates them to enemy nations. For example, “I refused national plans to put the government into business in competition with citizens. That was born of Karl Marx.” By this being said, there is an understanding that the New Deal was supportive of anti-American ideas. It seems as if Hoover purposely worded the statements he made the way he did, to make the New Deal sound like a communist scheme. In retrospect, I believe the New Deal was a positive idea in that it attempted to bring a level of equality to America. However, the middle class was left with the least amount of benefits which resulted in criticisms and outrage toward the government. In Minnie Hardin’s portion of the article, it was obvious she believes it is unfair that the middle class tax payers have a hard time paying taxes for the poor, and the poor do not seem to even be attempting to try and make their lives better, because they are mooching off the help they receive through the New Deal programs. I would have to agree with Hardin here, because there are some citizens, who expect to get money from tax payers, live off that money and
In the 1925 article in Document 23-1, Coolidge states his view on government control on businesses. In this document he addresses the New York Chamber of Commerce and how the government should step back and not interfere with businesses, however not abandon completely. “Regulation and control are the suffering that the just must endure because of the unjust.” Coolidge claims that it is unfair for businesses to be regulated and controlled only because there are certain businesses that have abused their rights. In agreement with Coolidge, I believe that regulation and control are unfair for the businesses that are just, in spite of the businesses that are unjust. It appears tat the whole reason regulations and control is put on businesses is because if there was no regulation than the ‘just’ businesses would do all they could and would eventually beat out the other businesses. Therefore the government is there to control and make sure that everything is fair especially in this rough time and hardship when businesses are going to break rules and stretch the limits of regulation to ensure the most money. Coolidge also claims that the goal of the Chamber of Commerce is more than just the “desire to gain” and exclaims that, “True business represents to mutual organized effort of society to minister to the economic requirements of civilization.” Coolidge claims that true business leads to