Monday- Continued with Brocks's Presentation
- 1936 Franklin an Alf Landon
- Franklin Platform
- Took quick action
- Americans believed he would do the same again
- Support from Farmers, Laborers, and the Poor
- Cantinuing his Progress from his first term of Presidency
- Alf Landon Platform
- Moderate Progressive
- Was Anti-Roosevelt
- 4 long year and Republicans needed to take control again
- Governor of Kansas
Franklin D. Roosevelt won 523 Electoral Votes 60.8% Popular Vote
- Why Historians believed FDR won again?
- Continuing his NEw Deal
- Said he would help All Americans, and Important Issues
- All Cultures Supportes him
- All Republicans did was attack him
Rural Electification Administration
- Created by Roosevelt Administration
- Created in 1935
- Wanted to bring Electricty to Rual Areas
- Gave funding to farms, to have electricty and power lin construction
- Helped serve 288,000 households
- By 1939 25% Rual areas had electricity
- By the time FDR died in 1945 9/10 farms had Electricity
Tennessee Valley Authority
- Established in 1933
- Control Floods
- Improve navigation
- Improve living standards of farmers
- Produce electrical power along river
- Various of dams buit to prevent flooding
- Waas proved to be very effective
- No major flood has occured since the systems of dams
The Dams
- The agency built 16 hydroelectric dams
- From 1933-1944
- Farmers learned new techniques
- Help control soil erosion
- Increase land productivity
Bonus Army
- After the Great War, veterans were promised a bonus
- Wasn't supposed to be paid until 1945
- Money would be put into an account
- Most Vterans were okay with this
Crash of 1929
- Unemployment rate goes down
- 25% enemployment
- Stock prices went down
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