While these programs helped small business, it also consoled the hurting middle and lower classes. Some, like Herbert Hoover may say that nobody deserves help from the government; whether one believes that or not, with such large numbers of the American population seeing troubling financial times, communist revolution could have broken out if the government did not help it's citizens. ... Hoover claims that the New Deal was a "spoils system [and] emotional economics" ("Herbert Hoover on the New Deal and Liberty," (1936), In Foner. 170). ... His favoring the rich, also...

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Individuals discussed within the book provided leadership and were associated with the state of Ohio throughout their lives. ... Vallandigham's anti-abolition and anti- New England views received the applause of three elements of Ohio's diverse population: Irish-Americans and German-Americans who feared emancipation would release a flood of cheap and competitive labor upon their communities and southern "uplanders" that brought their anti-Negro prejudices with them.# As a supporter of state's rights and slavery, he helped form the Peace Democrats. ... He wanted the Union of...

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Debs was the Socialist party nominee, he looked forward to the election with greater confidence than ever before. ... Taft had unavoidable conflict with his opponents, at it's roots the disagreement was over ideology, economics, and social policy, not personality. ... He believed that antitrust laws could help the government control corporations. ... Wilson Approached the issue of trusts and corporations from, a social angle, concerned less with the economic system itself than with the society shaped by economic conditions. ... Eugene Debbs felt that corporations is what is wrong ...

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