lunes, 22 de mayo de 2017

How important were Republican reactions to the Wall Street Crash as causes of Roosevelt's success in the presidential election of 1932?

During 1932, a presidential election was held in the USA in which the two main candidates were Hoover and Roosevelt. People were looking for a change, after the lack of confidence they had with Hoover when the Wall Street Crash come to be. Roosevelt won the elections representing the Democratic Party. There are still some Debate on why he was successful with the elections.

To start with, people in the USA were depress due to the fact that the economy was totally destroyed after the Wall Street Crash. Farmers were unable to pay their mortgages and they were removes from their land. In addition, the parks were full of homeless and unemployed people who were helped by charity workers. Despite the USA situation, the Republican government did nothing about it, they assured that "prosperity was just around the corner" and people wanted a change.



As a consequence of depression, in 1932 the Democrat candidate Roosevelt was elected president by the majority of USA population. He believe in active government, spending public money to upgrade the standards of living, like getting people back to work, helping poor, unemployed and Native Americans. Roosevelt promised a New Deal to change the situation USA was dealing with.


To conclude, Roosevelt won the presidential elections because Hoover and the Republicans did nothing for the Wall Street Crash and the situation USA was facing, which cause depression in the American society. republican reaction was important because people wanted a change and they lost confidence in Republican government.

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