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AP U.S. History Exam 2.39. The group most likely to support President Roosevelt's actions in the image would be...what?
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- 00:00
[ musical flourish ]
- 00:03
And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by the Reorganization Program,
- 00:08
the government's preferred filing system.
- 00:12
The groups most likely to support President Roosevelt's
- 00:15
actions in this image would be... who?
Full Transcript
- 00:18
All right, and here are your potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
- 00:24
All right, well, here we go.
- 00:25
Roosevelt's request for more power really ruffled the aprons
- 00:29
of the other cooks in the governmental kitchen.
- 00:31
Let's see which group would have been more-than-okay
- 00:33
with Roosevelt's plan to spice things up a bit.
- 00:36
Would President Roosevelt's actions have been supported by
- 00:39
A - the Supreme Court?
- 00:40
Well, actually, one of Roosevelt's proposed reforms was
- 00:43
a plan to reorganize the Supreme Court, to which the Justices
- 00:46
basically replied, "Uh,
- 00:48
no soup for you."
- 00:50
All right, so it's not A.
- 00:51
Would Roosevelt have been supported by B -
- 00:54
conservative politicians?
- 00:55
Well, conservative politicians were horror-struck
- 00:58
by the idea of so many radical economic reforms.
- 01:02
So they would have not-so-conservatively opposed
- 01:05
Roosevelt's efforts.
- 01:09
Would Roosevelt have likely been backed by D - Congress?
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Well, since Congress was partially comprised of
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those conservative politicians we just talked about,
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that esteemed body made a huge point of
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limiting FDR's New Deal.
- 01:26
Which means Roosevelt's governmental aims would've
- 01:29
been supported by C - labor unions.
- 01:32
Labor unions liked the idea of giving Roosevelt
- 01:35
all the power he wanted, since his economic reforms
- 01:38
were aimed at the creation of new jobs at any price.
- 01:44
So C is the right answer.
- 01:45
FDR was a good guy, but with all these requests
- 01:48
for power, he was pretty much saying, "Guys, that'll be fine,
- 01:51
just let me make all the decisions."
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That's more like checks and imbalances.
- 01:59
[ groaning ]
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