USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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Why did President Franklin Roosevelt frequently visit Georgia before and during his time in office?

(A) ** To visit his house at Warm Springs and receive medical treatment.

(B) He felt the key to winning World War II was getting Georgia’s support.

(C) Because he did not enjoy being in the Northeast.

(D) His family was instrumental in Georgia politics at the time.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -On October 3, 1924 Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Warm Springs, Georgia for the first time. It was his last hope of finding a cure for the polio that had left him crippled three years earlier.

Concept note-2: -Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, located in the Historic District of Warm Springs, Georgia. He first came to Warm Springs (formerly known as Bullochville) in 1924 for polio treatment, and liked the area so much that, as Governor of New York, he had a home built on nearby Pine Mountain.

Concept note-3: -Franklin Delano Roosevelt first visited Warm Springs in October 1924. He went to a resort in the town whose attraction was a permanent 88-degree natural spring, but whose main house, the Meriwether Inn, was described as “ramshackle". Roosevelt bought the resort and the 1, 700-acre (6.9 km2) farm surrounding it in 1927.

Concept note-4: -Warm Springs is home to Georgia’s largest state park, one of two national fish hatcheries in the state, and one of three presidential homes in Georgia – Franklin D. Roosevelt’s beloved “Little White House.”