The best option regarding an argument against the New Deal would be that "<span>B. It helped create a recession by taking money away from productive investment," although this proved mostly to be false. </span>
Answer: A) A. He wanted Vice President Arthur, a Stalwart, to take office.
President Garfield was a reformer who was against the Patronage Spoils System (a system that allowed you to get a job in the government even if you were not qualified).
Guiteau supported the Patronage spoils system, therefore he wanted a Stalwart to be President so the patronage spoils system would not be abolished.
It was "Alexander I" who was the Russian Tsar who refused to surrender to Napoleon in 1812, even after Moscow had been captured and burned, since he suspected (correctly) that Napoleon's army would not be able to endure.
