The Great Depression

AP US History· difficulty 3/5

Election of 1932: Electoral Vote FDR (D): 472 Hoover 59 EV Hoover carried only 6 New England/Plains states

The realignment shown in 1932 most directly contributed to which long-term political development?

  • A

    The New Deal Coalition, which made Democrats dominant in national politics through the 1960s.

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  • B

    The collapse of the two-party system.

  • C

    The rise of the Republican Party in the urban North.

  • D

    The end of presidential politics in the South.

Explanation

FDR's victory united urban workers, immigrants, African Americans (after 1936), white southerners, and farmers into a Democratic coalition that controlled the presidency for 28 of the next 36 years and made government activism mainstream.

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