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Beginning with the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24, 1929, the Great Depression was a time in United States history that continued for a much longer period than panics the country had experienced before. Although the unemployment rate vacillated for the following decade, it was highest in the recession of 1937. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the man the people of the United States called upon in order to pick up the copious economic and social problems left behind by Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt had both effective and defeasible responses to these problems that in turn, altered the government greatly.
Many of Roosevelt's responses to a number of problems created by the Great Depression increased the size of the federal government. As shown in document A, Lesueur discusses how the government set up programs that gave out food and had places for men to buy beds at extremely inexpensive prices. One such program was the Civil Works Administration, which provided temporary jobs......

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