Question

How did Hoover's and Roosevelt's approaches to handling the Great Depression differ?

A. FDR believed that social services should be handled by private charities; Hoover didn't.
B. They both held the same views.
C. FDR believed that federal government should take an active role in the economy; Hoover didn't.
D. Hoover believed that federal government should take an active role in the economy; FDR didn't.

Answer 1

C. FDR believed that the federal government should take an active role in the economy; Hoover didn't.
President Herbert Hoover is what we call a sitting duck president which means he didn't do anything and believed in a philosophy called "Rugged Individualism". Rugged individualism basically means it's every man for himself and Hoover felt that Americans should figure their issues out by themselves and not rely on the government to help them out.