<span>biggest reasons why the reformers were worried about the government is because they believed it was corrupt
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The great depression was the worst downturn in the history lasting from 1929-1939. It started in 1929 when the stock market crashed which sent wall street into panic, there are several other factors that caused the great depression:1)- Crash of stock market2)- Failure of many banks.3)- Poor banking policies by Federal Reserve. (Instead of lowering interest rate as economy slumped, they raised the interest rate.4)- Federal government also passed a high protective tariff.5)- unequal distribution of income.At first, government believed that the economy would correct itself,leading to no government action dealing with crisis. By the time government acted the depression was so severe that their efforts were not enough to recover the decline.
The main way in which Andrew Johnson's behavior in office influenced the events of the Reconstruction era was that "<span>Johnson's behavior and use of the veto prevented Republicans from getting their bills passed without Southern Democrats supporting them" since he was opposed to Reconstruction. </span>
Didn't go far enough.
Socialist critics of the New Deal charged it did not do enough to ease the Great Depression and set the US up for prevention later.
Critics such as Francis Townsend and Huey Long both proposed plans which would have led to more wealth sharing and more federal programs to aid with poverty and health care.
