Politics of the United States

Chapter 34 Outline FDR: Politician in a Wheelchair Eleanor Roosevelt: first lady, Roosevelt?s cousin and wife, more active first lady, fought for the impoverished and oppressed Presidential Hopefuls of 1932 New Deal: for the ?forgotten man? ?Brains Trust?: small group of reform-minded intellectuals, credited for writing FDR?s campaign speeches ?The Worst is Past?: Hoover?s campaigning tried to cover up the depression Hoover?s Humiliation in 1932 FDR: won the presidential election, wouldn?t accept Hoover?s burdens while not yet in office Hooverites: blamed Roosevelt for allowing the depression to worsen after the results but before his inauguration FDR and the Three R?s: Relief, Recovery, Reform ?Money changers?: declared that gov. must wage war on the GD, denounced by FDR

Chapter 32 Outline Catherine Snyder Seeing Red Bolshevik Revolution: spread some Communism into America ?Red Scare?: 1919-1920, crisis where suspected Communism was heavily questioned and punished Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer: rounded up suspected communists excessively Buford: 249 alleged alien radicals were deported to Russia IWW: members were often persecuted along with other radicals Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK Ku Klux Klan: spawned by postwar reaction, more so resembled antiforeign nativist movements (antiforeign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, anti-evolutionist, anti-bootlegger, antigambling, anti-adultery, anti-birth control) Stemming the Foreign Flood