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"Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly."—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, first inaugural address, 1933What is President Roosevelt's message in this excerpt from his inauguration speech? a. Raising the prices of crops will result in a beneficial trickle-down effect. b. The New Deal's programs will encourage more people to move to cities. c. The free market will solve the problems of the farming industry. d. Action must be taken to help farmers and people living in rural areas.

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