First Inaugural Address: Overcoming The Great Depression

The New Deal help created jobs and money to a lot of people in the 1930s. The New Deal created jobs by “creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to provide jobs for unemployed people” (history.com/topics/new-deal). This administration gave jobs to millions

In contrast to Hoover’s action during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stepped up for the people of the country and pursues justice for those that are suffering. President Hoover saw that it was more fit to give the state and the people, the role to fix the country and turn a blind eye to the devastation that occur. Whereas President Roosevelt saw that that is was necessary for the government to intervene and help the people overcome these tough times. In his speech to the people Roosevelt stated, “I see millions denied education,... I see millions lacking the means to buy product…. I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.” President Roosevelt approaches the people by sending them a powerful message.

On October 29, 1929 the country hit rock bottom financially, and for the next three years it did not get any better. The people started to blame the those in power, which created a country of anger. The roaring twenties had come to an end and it seemed all hopes were lost. The stock market was done for and banks all over the country were coming to terms with the same fate. As poverty and unemployment spread like wildfire across the nation, a new leader was elected. His Inaugural Address gave hope to all by showing that there was nothing to fear, materialistic views were not the road to happiness, and with a new government the nation would rise from this crisis.

Ironically, FDR was suffering the effects of polio and could not walk. He understood pain and he believed taking action was the prescription for American’s current situation. The Great Depression struck fear in American’s heart. FDR acknowledged this fear and challenged America to rise up against the paralyzing fear and advance with confidence into

The country was going through an ongoing rough depression that the previous President Hoover left in the road for his processor, President Roosevelt. Although not only President Hoover decisions and approval of laws added to the great depression, but the

The New Deal was something that was supposed to help citizens of the U.S get jobs so they could care for their family. During the Great depression and Dust Bowl many people lost their jobs and most people were now poor. The New Deal started in 1933 and gave some Americans jobs. The New Deal was a failure because it was racist towards African Americans and poverty continued throughout the U.S.A.

This picture is of Roosevelt during his inaugural address. This is where he told the people of the nation the famous line of, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” He also stated that he would take direct action and attack the depression as if it were a foreign enemy. The very next day he then issued a four day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from sketchy banks. On March 9th, congress then passed his Emergency Banking act. This reorganized the banks and closed the ones that couldn’t support themselves. In his “fireside chat” three days afterwards he urged the American people to put their money back in banks. By the end of the month he was able to open 3 quarters of them.

The New deal was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to end the great depression. It created jobs, made the social security program, and helped farmers make soil less loose. (Sources E, F, and G)It solved the banking situation, and modified the stock market. It also helped businesses get unions. (Source F) The New Deal was successful because it created many jobs and saved banks. (Sources F, G, I, and J)

The New Deal was a series of programs created by the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, during a time of economic depression to help the poor and destitute people of the nation by creating jobs, providing economic recovery, helping restore damaged areas in the U.S., and much more.

George Washington had to borrow money to relocate to New York, then the center of American government. His presidential inauguration was held near New York 's Wall Street in late April 1789. A tremendous crowd showed up to see the man now known as "the Father of His Country." Borrowing a custom from English monarchs, who by tradition address Parliament when its sessions open, Washington gave a brief speech. It was the first inaugural address and the first of many contributions that Washington would make to the office of the presidency. But this would be no monarch; the new leader wore a plain brown suit.

Franklin D. Roosevelt stated in his second inaugural address that “The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. The U.S. could not emerge from the pit of a national crisis without profound social and cultural changes. This era affected people through spending cutbacks and unemployment, but also brought the American people closer to their

President Johnson took the oath of office in an airplane, on November 22nd, 1963, after hearing of the Kennedy’s assassination. Johnson just barely made it into office for the 1964 election. When Johnson took the oath as president in 1964, his wife made history, as the first “First Lady” to stand by her husband as he took office. When Johnson took his oath in 1965, he saw himself as an equal to everyone. While he was the one taking the official oath, he believed that he was taking the oath was not his alone, but for every American Citizen. He had big expectation for what would happen during his presidency. He said, “Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.”

In his acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention on June 27, 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt mentioned many challenges and concerns facing the United States during that time period. In his speech the President used short-hand phrases, brief references, and pejorative naming to make his larger, political and ideological points. FDR used terms like ‘economic royalists’, along with phrases like ‘new despotism wrapped in the robes of legal sanctions’, to identify the large corporations, investors and employers, who according to him are trying to influence policies and control the government for their own personal benefits. The President also uses phrases like ‘Necessitous men are not free men’, to reiterate his concerns and to point out how the working people of America are being deprived from their rights by these very same privileged employers. FDR compares 1936 to 1776, referring to the American Revolution and its significance in putting the power back in the hands of the average Americans, and how it is necessary to check the power of the corporations in order to protect the interests of the American people and restore the power back in the hands of the people.

First, Roosevelt was willing to do much more than Hoover to combat the Depression. He was willing to have the government get much more involved in the economy. President Roosevelt compares his philosophy of government action to the Found Fathers and their willingness to confront problems by stating his belief that the “Federal Government was created in order to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty of the American People” (Hanes and Hanes 59). Whereas, Hoover believed in a more optimistic approach and thought that citizens should give more charity to others in order to help the majority. He also thought that the government has already facilitated with other issues, He enforced his beliefs by stating; “the government has already been helpful with the drought- its main priority- and the unemployment” (PAGE). To conclude, Hoover’s approach to the problems of the Great Depression was not nearly as aggressive as

The first inaugural address of Franklin D. Roosevelt was one that strove to lift the American people off their feet as the country entered some of it's worst years during the Great Depression. One of Roosevelt's strong advantages during his address was his ability to relate to the very real concerns of the everyday American citizens. With pressures of the failing economy facing the President-elect, he delivered this speech, addressing the nation about his plans for a New Deal. Roosevelt made his first point in his address by stating, “...the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” This statement later became one of the most famous Presidential lines in all of history. The purpose of this statement was to remind the nation that for this