Question

One difference between the administrations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Herbert Hoover is that Roosevelt was A able to ignore economic issues for most of his first term in office B unable to win congressional support for his economic program C more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problems D unwilling to allow government agencies to establish jobs programs

Answer 1

The correct answer is C more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problems.

Indeed, due to capitalistic ideological reasons Herbert Hoover privileged a laissez-faire economic approach of government which meant no or very little government intervention to solve economic problems. Therefore, he only accepted to provide economic relief to large banks and other financial institutions but not to rural, or smaller banks or to businesses and much less to the citizens.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the other hand, considered that such ideology was not only morally questionable but economically unsound and made sure, in accordance to progressive ideals that the federal government use its taxes to boost economic activity and provide relief to people that would contribute to national productivity and thus wealth.

Answer 2

The answer is C. more willing to use government intervention.

Herbert Hoover was a strong believer of self-sufficiency and his ideals were based on the laissez faire system, which is an economic system free from government intervention. On the contrary, when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office recognized that in order to support the country, the role of the government had to increase.