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Appendix B

The Great Depression

Part 1

Complete the chart by filling in each president’s views on the Great Depression.

| |Herbert Hoover |Franklin Delano Roosevelt |

|Causes of the Great |Hoover believed the great depression was international and that if he restored | |

|Depression |the gold standard it would pull the country out of the depression |The collapse of the stock market |

|General description | | |

|of response to the |President Hoover believed that it was not the responsibility of the federal |To bring the Country out of the depression was to enact his policy The New Deal policies. |

|Great Depression |government to end the depression | |

|Beliefs that guided |Hoover believed that the federal government and businesses needed to work |Roosevelt believed that the federal government should help businesses and the people to |

|him in his attempt to|voluntarily together to pull the country out of the depression. |end the depression. |

|solve it | | |

|What he told |Hoover believed if he raised tariffs on the...