USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

1920S AMERICAN CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The president elected after Herbert Hoover who promised to give America a “New Deal” was ____
A
Franklin Roosevelt
B
Theodore Roosevelt
C
Abraham Lincoln
D
Grover Cleveland
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Roosevelt united the party, campaigning on the failures of the Hoover administration. He promised recovery with a “New Deal” for the American people.

Detailed explanation-2: -Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

Detailed explanation-3: -In the summer of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor of New York, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.

Detailed explanation-4: -Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. He built the New Deal Coalition, which defined modern liberalism in the United States throughout the middle third of the 20th century.

Detailed explanation-5: -The New Deal was the effort by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took office in 1933, to respond to the calamity of the Great Depression and alleviate the despair besetting America.

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