Presidential Election Learning objective to understand and explain the outcome of the 1932 Presidential Election I can describe the outcome of the Presidential Election of 1932 Grade D ID: 679237
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Why did Roosevelt win the 1932 Presidential Election?Slide2
Learning objective
– to understand and explain the outcome of the 1932 Presidential Election.
I can
describe
the outcome of the Presidential Election of 1932
.Grade D
I can explain the outcome of the 1932 Presidential Election by giving at least two reasons why it happened.Grade B
I can explain and make links between the different reasons that help justify the outcome of the 1932 Presidential Election.Grade A/A*Slide3
Starter – Out of the 48 states of America in 1932, how many voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Presidential Election?Slide4
Starter – Out of the 48 states of America in 1932, 42 states voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Presidential Election.Slide5
Main task
This word cloud summarises the content of the 1932 Presidential Election.In pairs, find the 11 terms in the word cloud and using the PowerPoint and the sheet given to you, list the 11 terms and, for each term, write their relevance to the 1932 Presidential Election in two sentences.Slide6
Terms
RooseveltHooverDemocratsRepublicansLandslide
Bonus Army
Unemployment
State intervention
Strong LeadershipNew DealVagueSlide7
Extension Task
Create a hexagon pattern, provided on the worksheet, that helps you make links between the different factors of the 1932 Election. Choose from the 11 terms from the word cloud to help you fill in the 7 blank hexagons and where
each hexagon touches, you need to
make a link between the two factors in the hexagons.
Write
the link in the blank table provided on the sheet. You should aim to make at least three links.Slide8
What was the political position in America before and after 1932?
Between 1920 and 1932, the Republican party was in full control of government and the role of President. In 1928, 40 of the 48 states were Republican.
In the 1932 election, the Democrat Party, won 42 states with a new President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt being elected with a 7 million majority.
Between 1932 and 1953, each president was a Democrat and up to 1981, Congress and the Senate was under their control for much of that time.Slide9
Why did the Democrats win the 1932 Election?
Failure of Hoover as President.
The Bonus Army Episode.
Leadership
of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.Slide10
The failure of Herbert Hoover as President
Prosperity
is just around the corner.
A chicken in every pot; a car in every garage.
We in America are nearer to the final triumph
over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.Slide11
The failure of Herbert Hoover as President?
Hoovervilles
Unemployment
Banks and businesses closed
.
Failure of Rugged Individualism
and Laissez FaireSlide12
Who were the Bonus Army?
Because of the Depression, these veterans wanted their war bonus early and organised a campaign to get their war bonus early.
The Bonus Army
was ex-army veterans who fought in the First World War who were due pensions in 1945. These pensions were called war bonuses.Slide13
How did the Bonus Army campaign?
This shanty town housed around 40,000 men, women and children. But Congress refused to pay the war bonus. It would have cost them $2.3 billion and this was too much.
The Bonus Army
and their families marched on Washington DC and built a shanty town
ar
Anacostia Flats just outside the city.
To blacken the
Bonus Army’s name, Congress accused the Bonus Army of being led by Communists. This was unfair and inaccurate.Slide14
How did the government deal with the Bonus Army?
Hoover called in the army, who forcibly removed the Bonus Army in what was called the Battle of Anacostia Flats. Over a hundred of the Bonus Army were wounded with two killed, including a baby.
Initially, the government
offered the Bonus Army money for transport home.
5,000 refused to move and continued to protest.
The
Bonus Army incident made Hoover look cruel and
heavy-handed and many feared that the USA was on the verge of a revolution and social breakdown.Slide15
What did Roosevelt do during the Presidential campaign?
During the election, Roosevelt promised a ‘New Deal for the American people’ to end the Depression. He promised more state intervention and blamed the present government for the current state of the USA. Although, he was vague in how he was going to do this.
Roosevelt
was the Governor for New York State. He was the first Governor to spend money on helping the unemployed in a series of measures costing $20 million
He maximised Hoover’s unpopularity
as well as seem to be the only potential leader to offer a solution to end the problems of the Great Depression.
He promised –
Creation of jobs.
Assistance
for the unemployed and poor.
Help
for farmers and industry.
Protection
against harsh employers.
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Plenary
Stick a copy of this visual representation of the reasons why Roosevelt won the 1932 Election into your exercise book.
Beside each image write how it can contribute to answering the central question –
‘Why did FDR win the 1932 Election?’Slide17
Home learning task – Answer the exam question – Explain why Roosevelt won the 1932 Presidential Election. [8 marks]