Widespread unemployment and economic devastation

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For an entire decade, the Great Depression caused widespread unemployment and economic devastation in the United States. Evaluate the leadership of Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt during this crisis, explaining their theories on the origins of the depression and the role of the federal government in combating it. Select some of the most important New Deal programs and discuss them in some depth and detail. Do they still exist? If government programs reduced but failed to eliminate the high unemployment rate in the United States, then what does that tell us about the effectiveness of the New Deal?

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