You have learned that the Great Depression severely limited economic opportunities for most Americans. Both President Hoover and, later, President
Roosevelt tried to promote economic opportunities by taking a variety of actions based on their own political ideologies.
Read the following quotations by these two presidents.
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self help in the community. That has been the
American way.
-Herbert Hoover
This nation asks for action, and action now. Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the
determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Using these quotations and information from your reading, write two or three paragraphs in which you evaluate the extent to which each president
succeeded in advancing economic opportunities for all Americans.
Each of your paragraphs should have
a solid topic sentence that summarizes your position.
one or two pieces of evidence that support the topic sentence.
one or two sentences that explain how your evidence supports your topic sentence..