Multiple Choice. Use the quotation from a "fireside chat" delivered by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 to answer the question.
A few timid people, who fear progress, will try to give you new and strange
names for what we are doing. Sometimes they will call it "Fascism", sometimes
"Communism", sometimes "Regimentation", sometimes "Socialism". But, in so
doing, they are trying to make very complex and theoretical something that is
really very simple and very practical.
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Fireside Chat," June 28, 1934
In the quotation, Roosevelt is discussing criticism of the New Deal. Why did
critics of the programs equate them with these terms?
because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to
restrict freedom of speech and censor citizens
because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to
prioritize the interests of the wealthy
because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to exert
greater control over the economy
because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to
grant states greater control over public policy