Question

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? (1 point) Responses 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 exert greater control over the economy 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 restrict freedom of speech and censor citizens because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to grant states greater control over public policy because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to grant states greater control over public policy because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to prioritize the interests of the wealthy

Answer 1

because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to exert greater control over the economy