• Distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt• He married his 5th cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt• Suffered from polio in 1921• Very few pictures showed him in a wheel chair

• 32nd President of the USA (1933-1945)

• Beat Hoover in election by a landslide

• People wanted help and relief from the government

• FDR promised relief, recovery, and reform

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elief - give help immediately to jobless workerswho were in need.

ecovery - give help to banks, businesses, farmers, and workers to recover from the Great Depression.

eform– make long-term changes in the economy so that a depression would never happen again.

• Roosevelt’s plan to help the economy.• The New Deal was made up of a series of programs of relief, recovery, reform.

• a series of 31 radio broadcast messages from FDR

• FDR explained issues about the economy in simple language (like the bank crisis), his plans for a “New Deal”, and asked Americans “tell me your troubles”.

• As a result, many wrote FDR letters about their troubles

“Fireside Chats”

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• Though FDR’s plan began moving the country out of the Depression, by 1937 the country was back in an economic recession

• It was not until our involvement in WWII that the country had full employment and came completely out of the Great Depression.

• TVA, Social Security, and FDIC still exist today