Explain the impact of the New Deal on the size and scope of American government, as well as the effects of the New Deal on the political culture of the United States.

A  The New Deal was immensely unpopular among American voters and represented an unwelcomed intrusion into their everyday lives by an ever-growing federal bureaucracy. FDR served four terms as president primarily because American presidential elections were suspended during WWII (1936-1948).

B  The federal programs which encompassed the New Deal aimed to mitigate the economic and social hardships caused by the Great Depression. FDR proposed to develop and expand social safety-net programs which subsequently became identified with an emerging welfare state in the United States.

C  FDR believed that American farmers were largely responsible for the Great Depression and took an ambivalent posture towards agriculture, particularly in the South. Nearly all federal aid went to Northern cities.

D  The New Deal ushered in an era of deregulation and tax cuts which was intended to stimulate economic recovery by relying on the private sector— American industry and finance—to pull the United States out of the Great Depression.

E  None of the above.

F  All of the above.