Hoover vs. FDR: A Difference in Ideology

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Hoover vs. FDRA Difference in Ideology
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Herbert Hoover

• rugged individualism
• Charities should address local problems
• Some Public Works Programs
• Federal Home Loan Bank Act, etc.

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1930 Mid-term Elections

• Congress becomes nearly all Democrats
• Farmers violent reaction
• Negative attitude against Hoover
• Hoovervilles
• Hoover blankets
• Hoover flags
• Presidential Election of 1932
• Hoover (Repub.) vs. Roosevelt (Democrat)

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Background on FDR

• Harvard graduate, lawyer, elite family, related
  to Teddy Roosevelt
• 1912-Asst. Sect. of Navy
• 1920-runs for VP, loses

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More Background on FDR

• 1921-gets polio
• 1928-elected as Gov. of NY
• 1932elected president by overwhelming majority

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FDRs First 100 Days

• Brain Trust develops New Deal programs
• relief, recovery, and reform
• expands authority of federal government
• Many critics of FDR and New Deal
• 1st 2nd New Deal
• Public relations campaign 1st Fireside Chat

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Eleanor Roosevelt

• Promoted New Deal
• Advocate for women, poor, minorities
• Helped create and design policies