Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of the worldwide financial crisis triggered in part by the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Great Depression soon achieved a depth ...

Campaign In 1932, the topic of highest importance to Americans was the Great Depression, giving Democrats an advantage in securing Franklin D. Roosevelt’s place in the White House. Roosevelt’s ...

Roosevelt was proactive ... 1945 under the Democratic Party President Franklin Roosevelt. His plan intended to solve the problems caused by the Great Depression. Americans had lost confidence ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

The country was experiencing its worst year yet of the Depression ... It was the day of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inauguration as president of the United Stateds. Americans gathered around ...