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Title: Franklin%20Delano%20Roosevelt


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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• 4 Term President
• January 30, 1882  April 12, 1945

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FDR Early Years
Franklins uncle Theodore, also known as Teddy
Roosevelt became the President of the United
States and was best man at the wedding between
FDR and Eleanor.
Extremely wealthy
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• Franklin Roosevelt believed in public service,
  also known as community service. Public service
  is working for the good of others.
• FDR had difficulty walking because he had polio.
• He tried to improve his health by visiting Warm
  Springs, Georgia.

polio
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Diligence means, hard working.
FDR had respect for Authority.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• FDR was President during a time when many people
  lost their jobs and homes.
• Many people lived in poverty.
• Poverty is a severe lack of money and with no way
  jobs, much suffering.
• This time in history is known as The Great
  Depression.

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POVERTY

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1934 The Great Depression

• "How many men ever went to a barbecue and would
  let one man take off the table what's intended
  for nine-tenths of the people to eat? The only
  way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of
  the people is to make that man come back and
  bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no
  business with!"
• Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, 1934

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Hyde Park, New York
FDRs boyhood home and family estate in New York.
Now a tourist attraction.
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FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• FDR became President of the US in 1932.
• He was born in Hyde Park, New York, his family
  home.
• He was reelected 3 more times.
• He lived in the White House in Washing ton D.C.
  as President.
• He considered Warm Springs, GA to be his second
  home. He died here in 1945.

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A Alpharetta B Warm Springs C Washington,
DC D Hyde Park, New York
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Eleanor Roosevelt

• 1st Lady and World Peace Advocate
• October 11, 1884  November 7, 1962

"Uncle Ted" always called Eleanor his favorite
niece. He taught her the "Roosevelt rule" Never
show fear.
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Eleanors Destiny
FDR was Eleanors Fathers 5th cousin.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born at 56 West 37th
Street in New York City, Nicknamed "Ellie" or
"Little Nell".3 From the beginning, Eleanor
preferred to be called by her middle name.
Your 5th cousin is someone who has the same
great, great, great, great grandparent.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor and Franklin had six children together.
They are both buried in Hyde Park, NY in the
family gravesite.
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Eleanor Roosevelt

• Eleanor Roosevelt also believed in Community
  Service, working for the good of others in the
  community.
• She taught immigrants to read.
• She personally answered letters from troubled
  people to give them.
• She would invite only women reporters to her
  weekly press conferences in support of womens
  equal rights to work.
• Her friend, Mary McLeod Bethune, an Educator and
  African American woman, taught Eleanor about the
  struggles faced by African Americans for
  equality.

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Eleanor Travelled Around the World
Canada
Australia
Show where Canada and Australia can be found on
this map.
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Eleanor Roosevelt

• Eleanor Roosevelt attended boarding school in
  London and was fluent in French.
• She travelled around the world and visited places
  including Canada and Australia.
• In 1945, Eleanor joined the NAACP board of
  directors.
• The new president, Harry S. Truman, asked Eleanor
  to represent the USA at the first meeting of the
  United Nations, in London.
• Eleanors most important contribution to draft
  the Declaration of Human Rights for the United
  Nations organization, still in existence today.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

• US President
• August 27, 1908  January 22, 1973

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Lyndon B. Johnson
Stonewall, Texas
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Lyndon B. Johnson

• He grew up very poor so he wanted to find a
  solution to poverty.
• He wanted to use taxes to pay for services that
  government provides for people.
• He lived during the time of segregation.
• Segregation was supposed to provide separate but
  equal rights for African Americans.
• Instead it meant that African Americans could not
  mix with white Americans in some places of
  business and in public wash rooms and swimming
  pools and rights were still NOT equal.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

• Lyndon B. Johnson listened to African American
  leaders Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall.
  He agreed to help pass laws to protect the civil
  rights of all Americans regardless of their race.
• He appointed the first African American Supreme
  Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall.
• Lyndon B. Johnson is remembered for fighting
  poverty and segregation.

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Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Luther King I have a dream
1963
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Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court Justice
1967