Read the excerpt from a speech given by Herbert Hoover during the presidential campaign.%0D%0A%0D%0ADuring the war we necessarily turned to the Government to solve every difficult economic problem . . . there was no other solution. For the preservation of the State, the Federal Government became a centralized despotism which undertook unprecedented responsibilities, assumed autocratic powers, and took over the business of citizens. To a large degree we regimented our whole people temporarily into a socialistic state. However justified in time of war, if continued in peace time it would destroy not only our American system but with it our progress and freedom as well. . . . We were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines—doctrines of paternalism and state socialism.%0D%0A— presidential candidate Herbert Hoover, 1928%0D%0A%0D%0A %0D%0A%0D%0AThe beliefs expressed by Hoover in this excerpt influenced him to adopt policies that led to%0D%0A%0D%0A(1 point)%0D%0AResponses%0D%0A%0D%0Aincreased business regulations and worker's rights protections.%0D%0Aincreased business regulations and worker's rights protections.%0D%0A%0D%0Athe repeal of Jim Crow laws and improved rights for African Americans.%0D%0Athe repeal of Jim Crow laws and improved rights for African Americans.%0D%0A%0D%0AUS isolationism and the country's refusal to join the League of Nations.%0D%0AUS isolationism and the country's refusal to join the League of Nations.%0D%0A%0D%0Agovernment inaction that worsened the Great Depression’s effects.
