Chapter 34 Outlines-Baily’s

Chapter 34 Outlines

Election of 1932

• As the election of 1932 neared, unemployment and poverty brought dissent of President Hoover and a demand for a change in policy. The Republicans nominated Herbert Hoover to run for president in the election of 1932. The Democrats chose Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He had been born to a wealthy New York family and served as the governor of New York.

FDR: Politician in a Wheelchair

• Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was to become the most active First Lady in history. She powerfully influenced the policies of the national government, battling for the impoverished and oppressed.

• Roosevelt’s commanding presence and golden speaking voice made him the premier American orator of his generation.

Presidential Hopefuls of 1932

• In the Democratic campaign of 1932, Roosevelt attacked the Republican Old Deal and concentrated on preaching a New Deal for the “forgotten man.” He promised to balance the nation’s budget and decrease the heavy Hooverian deficits.

• Although the campaign for the Republicans was dire, Herbert Hoover reaffirmed his faith in American free enterprise and individualism. He predicted prosperity if the Hawley-Smoot Tariff was repealed.

Hoover’s Humiliation in 1932

• Franklin Roosevelt won the election of 1932 by a sweeping majority, in both the popular vote and the Electoral College.

• Beginning in the election of 1932, blacks became, notably in the urban centers of the North, a vital element of the Democratic Party.

FDR and the Three R’s: Relief, Recovery, Reform

• Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4, 1933.

• On March 6-10, President Roosevelt declared a national banking holiday as a prelude to opening the banks on a sounder basis. The Hundred Days Congress/Emergency Congress (March 9-June 16, 1933)