Question

Why did some people have trouble accepting government help durging the great depression

Answer 1

People during the Great depression responded generally in three ways, those three ways being the conservative response, The liberal response, and the radical response.

The conservative response:
during the great depression people were self-reliant and they excepted change but only in moderation, they were opposed to larger governmental efforts.

The liberal response:
in this response people focused on protecting their individual liberty from the government they believed that less government was better. their views changed when businesses rose, they believed that the government should be active during the progressive era.

The radical response:
people had very little patience for a status quo, in the 1930s socialist and communist attracted supporters with calls for radical change, they wanted to change the government from capitalism to communism.