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This address took place in the throes of the Great Depression and Franklin Roosevelt said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and in an upbeat address he spoke first of the strong challenges that faced the nation with25% unemployment and the economy in shambles but then gave hope to theAmerican people and pledged to use the resources of the government to, as it turned out forge a New Deal to put people back to work on government infrastructure projects and thus get the economy moving again.
By speaking to Americans on the radio, he made the New Deal understandable. - Apex
It helped American workers enter the middle class
He refused to let his disability impact his goals
Many felt that sacco and vanzetti were convicted because of xenophobia
Scopes was declared guilty, but people felt the law violated the Constitution. Scopes was fined and the law was upheld.
He pitched the Democratic party as the party of racial equality
A northern city
Fascism
He closed all the banks and only reopened those with enough money.
The idea of laissez faire in President Hoover's 1932 campaign platform was that the government should stay out of economic issues.
It would disrupt the checks and balances of the government's branches.
take jobs that men had held before the war
Franklin D Roosevelt created millions of jobs by the Civilian Conservation Corps. This improved the public lands.
.FDR was a Democrat and most African Americans voted Republican.
By preventing bank runs
Civil Rights
African Americans began voting for democrats because of FDR. (apex)
garvey wanted African americans to return to Africa, while the NAACP wanted African americans to have civil rights at home (APEX)
He was convicted of fraud.
Reformer
Americans dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to defeat them.
Racial discrimination and poverty were issues that encouraged Communist Party membership.
By using Lend-Lease to send supplies.
The United States gave Britain aid without waiting for payment. APEX!
The allied invasion of Northern Africa was called Operation Torch.
They worked for a constitutional amendment-APEX
That there were solutions to the problems of the Great Depression.
payments to older americans
it turned public opinion against president hoover.
Roosevelt's court-packing plan would disrupt the checks and balances of the government.
Pullman porters needed a union because they were not treated well.
