How did Herbert Hoover respond to the Depression?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
After the stock market crash, Hoover increased spending for public works.
He established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make government credit available to banks and other financial institutions.
Seeking to restore confidence in the economy, Hoover strove for a balanced budget by raising taxes and cutting spending.
He believed that government relief to the needy had demoralizing effects on people.
Even when it was clear that the crisis was beyond the help of charitable groups, Hoover remained strongly opposed to direct relief for the poor.
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Jonathan Edwards' preaching called for:
A) abandoning all hope of salvation. B) the poor to defer to the rich. C) a return to the strict Calvinism of an earlier generation. D) seeking satisfaction through material goods.
Social class in eighteenth-century America was __________
A) nonexistent B) based on land monopoly C) based on economic rank D) similar to European aristocracy
The lives of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson provide strong evidence that __________
a. Puritans seldom disagreed on matters of theology b. Massachusetts Bay officials insisted on freedom of religious thought and expression c. Massachusetts Bay faced difficulties in creating the perfect society in America d. Massachusetts Bay Colony sent preachers to frontiers as missionaries to the Indians e. most Puritans had wanted to break away from the Church of England
The mission of Captain Bligh's Bounty in 1787 was to
a. explore the Pacific Ocean in search of the fabled Northwest Passage. b. obtain breadfruit as a potential staple food for slaves in the West Indies. c. seek out new lands and peoples for Great Britain. d. map the islands to the west of Australia.