President Herbert Hoover's response to the Depression
- A
Was a sweeping federal aid program rivaling the later New Deal in scale and reach, with direct relief checks to unemployed workers
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Was relatively limited; emphasized voluntarism and rugged individualism, with some interventions like the RFC
- C
Was nonexistent, with no federal action or response to the economic collapse and no use of any executive or legislative powers at all
- D
Was widely successful in restoring growth and ending the Depression well before the end of his single term in the White House office
Explanation
"Hoovervilles" (shantytowns) were named for him in mockery; he lost overwhelmingly in 1932.