Correct Response: B. Both Progressives and New Dealers strongly believed that government should be used to correct social problems. During the presidential administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the federal government enacted a wide range of reform measures dealing with abuses of corporate power, labor rights, unemployment, farm poverty, and a host of other matters. Although Progressives and New Dealers sought to uphold capitalism (A), they believed government necessary to curb the excesses of market economies, one of which was a tendency to produce marked inequities in the distribution of wealth (C). Compared with the Progressives, a number of whom were strong proponents of immigration restriction (D), New Dealers were much less concerned about immigration.
