PPT-Teddy Roosevelt and the Square Deal

Square Deal It is the duty of the president to act upon the theory that he is steward of the people and to assume that he has the legal right to do whatever the needs of the people demand unless the Constitution or the laws explicitly forbid him to do it. President Franklin Roosevelt promised to take action to get America out of the Great Depression.. Key terms: Hundred Days, New Deal, work relief, subsidy. Essential Questions. How did Roosevelt try to restore the confidence of the American people?. Pat . Feehan. Hickory Creek. Library of Congress . Summer Class 2012. Single handedly fought, killed & ate Big Foot before breakfast. ***I’m Kidding***. (duh). Built his strength up as a teenager through hundreds of pushups, boxing, and swimming. Objectives:. To trace the events of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. To show how Roosevelt used the power of his office to regulate business. To identify laws passed to protect citizens’ health and preserve the environment. Reaction to the Gilded Age. Sources of Progressive Reform . A. Industrialization, with its increase in productivity and the number of consumer goods, created. Unemployment and labor unrest. Wasteful use of natural resources . Roosevelt was the son of a wealthy Dutch man from New York and a Southern Bell. He was born in 1858 in New York and was a very sickly young boy. He had terrible asthma and needed to be home schooled . The 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. Chapter . 22. . The New Deal. Main Idea: . In 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president of a suffering nation. He quickly sought to address the country’s needs with mixed results.. Chapter 22 . Introduction. Nearly 76 million Americans greeted the new century in 1900. Almost one in seven of them were foreign-born. The 20. th. century will bring in ethnically and racially mixed American people than before. These new crusaders will call themselves the Progressives. . Introduction. As the presidential election neared in 1932 there were 11 million people still unemployed and their families sank ever deeper into the pit of poverty. . Hoover was renominated. , but not a lot of enthusiasm surrounded him. While a rising star of the democrats was Franklin Delano . 2. The Main Idea. In 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president of a suffering nation. He quickly sought to address the country’s needs, with mixed results.. Reading Focus. What were the key events of the presidential election of 1932? . Objectives:. To trace the events of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. To show how Roosevelt used the power of his office to regulate business. To identify laws passed to protect citizens’ health and preserve the environment. FDR. Born in 1882, 5. th. cousin of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1921 he contracted polio and lost the use of his legs. (Paralytic Illness). Promised Americans a “New Deal” in 1932 but was vague on the details. Four months elapsed between the election and FDR taking office. Worked with his advisors, the Brain Trust, on new policies that came to collectively be called the New Deal. Policies focused on 3 goals. . U.S. History. Essential Question. What was the New Deal and how did it change American society?. Main Idea. The New Deal was President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan for overcoming the Great Depression. His plan gave government jobs to the unemployed and increased government regulation of the economy. Although New Deal programs achieved varied levels of success, they did represent a basic change in American society..