As the great depression began in 1929, and millions of americans found themselves in a terrible economic position, president herbert hoover was reluctant to involve the government in directly people. this decision lead to his loss in the presidential election of 1932. put yourself in hoover’s shoes—what reasons would he have for being opposed to large-scale government involvement in the economic lives of americans? what reasons could be given for the government getting involved?

Opposed to government involvement:

America had always been an individualistic nation—government handouts would take away from that.

Hoover believed that the economy would recover on its own.

For government involvement:

Private businesses would not hire people in bad times—government (since it didn’t need to make a profit) could and should get people working and help them out.

Americans were suffering and the national government was the only entity capable of handling such a large problem.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

you didn't list the options. however, a few communist countries today are: the people's republic of china, north korea, and cuba.