THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Question
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Roosevelt was dedicated to women’s liberation
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As governor of New York Roosevelt had taken active steps to provide aid for citizens
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Roosevelt was a more well-known candidate
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As presidential candidate Roosevelt promised to prosecute those responsible for the stock market crash
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Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt emphasized working collectively through an expanded federal government to confront the economic crisis, a contrast to Hoover’s emphasis on individualism. During the campaign, Roosevelt ran on many of the programs that would later become part of the New Deal during his presidency.
Detailed explanation-2: -Democratic New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican incumbent president Herbert Hoover in a landslide, with Hoover winning only six Northeastern states. Roosevelt’s victory was the first by a Democratic candidate since Woodrow Wilson won re-election in 1916.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did voters support Franklin Roosevelt in the election of 1932? Roosevelt said he would create a welfare system to provide government relief to every family that needed it. He promised his administration would institute a new system of Social Security pensions for Americans.
Detailed explanation-4: -He tackled official corruption by dismissing Smith’s cronies and renamed the New York Public Service Commission. He addressed New York’s growing need for power through the development of hydroelectricity on the St. Lawrence River. He reformed the state’s prison administration and built a new state prison at Attica.