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Read the excerpt from Herbert Hoover’s “Rugged Individualism” speech, delivered on October 22, 1928. Choose two highlighted examples that best emphasize why Hoover supported a limited federal response to the onset of the Great Depression.

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Answer: That EFFECT WOULD REACH TO THE DAILY LIFE OF EVERY MAN AND WOMAN. It would impair the very basis of liberty and freedom not only for those left outside the fold of expanded bureaucracy but for those embraced within it.

When the Federal Government undertakes to go into commercial business, it must at once set up the organization and administration of that business, and it immediately finds itself in a labyrinth,EVERY ALLEY OF WHICH LEADS TO THE DESTRUCTION OF SELF-GOVERNMENT.

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Answer:

1- a

2-a

3- d

4-d

5- I have witnessed not only at home but abroad the many failures of government in business.

By adherence to the principles of decentralized self-government, ordered liberty, equal opportunity, and freedom to the individual, our American experiment in human welfare has yielded a degree of well-being unparalleled in the world.

6- b

7- a

8- paragraph

9- a & b

10- c

11- Farmers in the Great Plains enjoyed great prosperity starting at the turn of the century

The crop prices rose after the federal government purchased excess crops during world war 1

Farmers and ranchers mortgaged theor farms to buy more land and equipment

The need for extra crops decreased after the war, and the price of wheat dropped sharply

12- c & e

13- b

14- c

15- The Smoot-Hawley Tariff raised taxes on thousands of imports

The Tariff angered America's foreign trade partners

America's trade partners raised taxes on American goods, shrinking international trade

Trade markets closed and the Great Depression worsened

16- d

17- b

18- The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products

19- d

20- Emergency Banking Act ~ Created a bank holiday so the government could examine banks and improve confidence

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) ~ Provided workers with jobs building dams to control the river and create a source of hydroelectric energy

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) ~ Provided government jobs for young men, many in national parks and historic sites

Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) ~ Gave $500 million in direct grants to states and relief agencies to help the unemployed

21- a

22- d

23- c

24- d

25- e

26- I think all you have to do ladies and gentlemen, is just limit the hours of work

27- b

28- a

29- c

30- paragraph

31- b

32- a & e

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