Hoover Dbq

When Hoover was faced with the Bonus Army it resulted in there eviction using tear gas and torches. This added to the hate of Hoover in America. So when veterans returned when Roosevelt was his reaction was to treat them with respect and eventually give them their payments. After what Hoover and Roosevelt did it was clear that they had a different mindset as presidents. Roosevelt saw himself equal to all the veterans, he visited them personally and brought them coffee. The atmosphere that Roosevelt created in his presidency made events like these beneficial and easy compered to his predecessors. Roosevelt was for the people and was willing to provide them with compensation while the previous Republican presidents were to business oriented.

Wallace defends the pig reduction with the reduction of pig-iron production which resulted in the loss of millions of jobs. The reduction of pigs did not cost millions of jobs, but it helped the industry by making pigs more profitable. Wallace tries to put the rumor that food was being mass destroyed to rest by claiming that the government was only controlling the amount of land that could be

Overall Wallace is trying to defend the new deal and trying to inform the public of what the government is really doing. In the next document on the radio Huey Long claims to want to cut the wage gap between the rich and poor and provide the poorest families with a livable wage. He wants every person in America to be able to have a chance to thrive whether it be to provide extra money for food or for an education. He does not plan to commandeer money from the rich to give to the poor but to provide enough money to make “Every man a king” and allow everyone to thrive. In theory this sounds like a great idea but it would require a large tax increase that most successful people in America at the time would most likely not want to pay. They would raise the idea of Social Darwinism once America is successful and question why their money they earned is going to the unsuccessful. He has the idea that the government should limit one person’s wealth to 50 million dollars. This cap may seem large to the average citizen but to people that had massive amounts of money like the Rockefeller family this would merely be a fraction of their