22. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 22: Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and its Critics

**Quiz for Document 22.5: Huey P. Long, Criticism of Franklin Roosevelt (1935)**

Quiz for Document 22.5: Huey P. Long, Criticism of Franklin Roosevelt (1935)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. Which of the following political labels describes Huey P. Long’s political ideology?

Democratic

Socialist

Populist

Dixiecrat

2. Huey P. Long tries to discredit Franklin Roosevelt and his programs by associating them with

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Woodrow Wilson.

Herbert Hoover.

William Jennings Bryan.

3. According to Huey P. Long, Roosevelt’s programs were ineffective because they

poured too many resources into relief for the poor and unemployed.

failed to address the nation’s unequal distribution of wealth.

reinforced the separation between business and government.

made poor Americans dependent on government handouts.

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