Question

Herbert Hoover, The Challenge to Liberty (1936)
Primary Source:
"We have to determine whether under our Constitution the Federal Government shall go into the banking business, the power business, the insurance business, the farming business, the health business, the labor business, the housing business, the manufacturing business—and all the other businesses of the Nation. When the Federal Government undertakes these things, it will undermine the very foundations of liberty. Once government becomes the master instead of the servant, it may destroy the initiative and independence which are the very essence of freedom."

What criticism of the New Deal is Hoover expressing here?

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That it gave too much power to big corporations
That it expanded federal government power too much
That it ignored the needs of farmers
That it created another stock market crash

Answer 1

That it expanded federal government power too much.

Hoover argues the New Deal put the federal government into many areas of private enterprise, risking government domination over individual initiative and liberty.