Advanced Placement-Style United States History
  Question of the Day--Answer and Explanation

Huey P. Long of Louisiana,
a demagogic politician of the 1930s
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Question 1017:

Which of the following individuals criticized the New Deal policies of Franklin Roosevelt. challenging America to make "Every Man a King" and proposing a Share Our Wealth plan in which income would be distributed evenly throughout the U.S.?

    (A)    Alf Landon
    (B)    Father Charles Coughlin
    (C)    Dr. Francis Townsend
    (D)    Huey Long
    (E)    Herbert Hoover
Answer:
    (D)    Huey Long
Explanation:

Governor (and then Senator) Huey Long controlled Louisiana politics during the early 1930s and developed a national following with his Share Our Wealth clubs that suggested distributing America's wealth from the rich to the poor. He was mentioned as a  potential opponent to FDR in the 1936 presidential election but was killed by an assassin in 1935.
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