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

**Quiz for Document 22.4: Republican Party National Platform (1936)**

Quiz for Document 22.4: Republican Party National Platform (1936)

Document 22.4: Republican Party National Platform (1936)

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Question 22.10

1. Which of the following arguments made in the Republican Party National Platform of 1936 suggests that the Roosevelt administration was creating a welfare state?

“The powers of Congress have been usurped by the President.”

“[The New Deal Administration] has destroyed the morale of our people and made them dependent upon government.”

“The integrity and authority of the Supreme Court have been flouted.”

“[The New Deal Administration] has been guilty of frightful waste and extravagance, using public funds for partisan purposes.”

Question 22.11

2. The Republican platform of 1936 said that the New Deal administration had “created a vast multitude of new offices, filled them with its favorites, set up a centralized bureaucracy, and sent out swarms of inspectors to harass our people.” This charge refers to which of the following developments?

The New Deal’s expansion of the federal government’s size and authority

The New Deal’s radical restructuring of the American economy

Roosevelt’s neglect of matters relating to African Americans’ civil rights

Roosevelt’s creation of a coalition consisting of immigrants, workers, and Southern Democrats.

Question 22.12

3. The Republican Party’s platform suggests that in the 1930s it represented the interests of which of the following groups?

African Americans and white workers in the North

Urban immigrants and small farmers

White Southerners and fundamentalists

Business interests and white Protestants in the North

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