Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the US whose term in office lasted from 1933 – 1945. Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882 in Dutchess County, New York. Entering politics in 1910 Roosevelt served as a member in the New York Senate and moved up to Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of New York, then President. Roosevelt won in the 1933 election during the midst of the Great Depression and used advocacy and optimism to bring back the morale of the nation. During his first…

President Franklin Roosevelt and President Herbert Hoover were more different than they were similar. They both tried to stop the Great Depression. They also were looking for new ways to make America a better social and economic country. Nonetheless, President Herbert Hoover's popularity was falling as voters felt and he was unable to reverse the economic collapse or deal with prohibition. His policies during his presidency were ineffective causing unemployment reaching as high as 25-30%. Hoover…

Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt had different methods of trying to solve the problem, however, their efforts had different results…

During World War II President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued presidential order along with congress support to give military authority to exclude americans with japanese descent from areas deemed essential to national security. This executive order forced hundreds of thousands of American citizens with Japanese descent into internment camps in the central regions of the United States. The executive order served as a security mechanism after the japanese attacks on pearl harbor. A Lot of…

October, 1929, the stock market crash lead the U.S. into widespread poverty for a phenomenal 10 years. At the time, President Hoover’s solution focused on indirect re to a humiliating defeat against Franklin D. Roosevelt who promised to bring a better, brighter future for America. The New Deal was Franklin D. Roosevelt's contribution plan to solve the Great Depression. Although the New Deal didn't end the depression, it did relieve much economic hardship and gave Americans faith in the…

starts with a small summary of what the law will do. What is more important, however, is the format the follows. There is a “WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU” sub-heading which implies a simplified breakdown of the law and its relevance. This is a way for the Roosevelt Administration to directly communicate with the general public. This breakdown of communications allows the administration to avoid confusing or potentially losing the trust of the American citizens: “The checks will come to you as a right.…

In the Great Depression, there were hardly any jobs. So, Franklin D. Roosevelt, also known as FDR, came up with a plan called the “New Deal.” The three main goals of this plan was relief, recovery, and reform. To accomplish those tasks, many groups were formed. One of those groups was the Civilian Conservation Corps, also known as the CCC. The main goal of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to put young men from ages eighteen to twenty-five to work and to solve the physical problems of the…

America then elected Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt brought america out of is desperate crashed state with a new program and within the first hundred days. He brought hope to many Americans with worries about losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority. One of the many things he did was create was a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture.This was called "The First 100 Days" During this time Roosevelt and…

On Aug 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. It was during The Great Depression of the 1930’s that the need for the poor and elderly to live independently was realized. This was a time when millions of Americans could not find work and did not have the money to feed their families. Franklin D. Roosevelt became president in 1932 during the Depression, which was the nation’s worst economic crisis, and proposed an idea of social insurance. This idea basically…

In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt was favorably elected into office as the nation's thirty second president. In the midst of the Great Depression with the second world war brewing, the expectations of the American people put a great deal of pressure on President Roosevelt's term. When President Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address came around, many Americans were very eager to hear what sort of plan he had created to solve the country's many hardships. With tens of millions of people listening to…