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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s campaign to the New Deal Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, being the next president to turn around our nation's economy after the depression, started his race strong. Roosevelt made history by being the first to accept his nomination at the party’s convention. His trend was to break tradition because tradition is what has America in the place they were in. His drive to deliver the speech nationally on that early Saturday morning on the 2nd of July of year 1932 gave great hope to the people. It was marked as the speech of a lifetime. During this time the American people are in desperate needs of a change. The attitudes of voters have change. The concern is greater and the trust from voters had to be earned. We also see that the economy has left the white house is total disaster. The system called for a complete overhaul and that's exactly what Franklin D. Roosevelt promised. Looking back on American history we see the collapse of the largest working parts to our economy, The Stock Market. The October 1929 “day of doom” had the largest impact on our country every. This time left majority of family homeless and without jobs. Wages were low and welfare was limited. In fact we see these events left a well positioned appeal to Roosevelt's campaign. “The Hoover”, a shorthand name for the depression days, destroyed the trust and image of the Republican party. His presidency could not have come at a more appropriate time. The people thirsted for a change and he proclaimed, “Let is be from now on the task of our party to break foolish traditions”. He followed that comment with, “We will break foolish traditions and leave it to the republican leadership to break promises”. Roosevelt’s word gained so much trust that he was basically guaranteed the presidency. Roosevelt made his campaign to a new deal more than votes. He made the campaign a movement. Roosevelt told the mass crowds, “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people”, following with, “[this] is more than a political campaign, this is a call to arms… [give] me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people”. The people were given back the power to determine their futures. This is something the American people had lost in the years prior to his campaign. In some instances i can relate this campaign to that of the current president Mr. Donald J. Trump. Not so much in the approval or other wild facts of his campaign, but only the overall theme. Trump just as Roosevelt promised a people’s government and a promise to serve the people. Trump’s success is still to be determined but definitely stuck some American in the same manner as President Roosevelt. Throughout the campaign, Roosevelt used the technology era to his advantage. He showed the american people he cared. Showing up to conventions in person unlike President Hoover at the time. The media aired most of his appearances and speeches. His campaign across the country made him even more likable. Majority of his time spent on the train, he could almost consider it a second home, which quickly made his opponent Hoover to join him. Hoover also jumped to the rails and radios. This helped little in Hoover’s efforts to gain another term in office. He along with team knew this victory had be lost in this point in the race. Throughout President Roosevelt's campaign and years of office he came across the great state of Georgia. Georgia is one of many states that would benefit greatly from the New Deal. the New Deal, which brought advances in rural electrification, education, health care, housing, and highway construction. Not only did the New Deal play a great role in Georgia’s economy, President Roosevelt had a special connection here in the peach state. President Roosevelt had a second home in Georgia called the little White House. The Little white house is located in the city of Warm Springs, Georgia. During this time, Franklin D. Roosevelt worked and meet many Georgians. He saw the first hand of poverty and destruction that the Great Depression had on the citizens of that state. Franklin D. Roosevelt then became diagnosed with polio. Throughout his time in the treatment center in Warm Springs, President Roosevelt started his Warm Springs Foundation, which would later be named Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. This is the time where President Roosevelt became active in the local community and economy. He began to frame the actual details of The New Deal. He began to meet and study the connection between the farmers and the agriculture difficulties they were facing. He also studied the social and educational problems Georgia faced. President Roosevelt used the data he found to construct his New Deal Plan which would begin immediately. His New Deal programs, begun immediately upon his inauguration in 1933 and aimed first at economic recovery, would ultimately address the nation's and Georgia's social conditions as well (Encyclopedia). The Georgia Encyclopedia states the first acts of the New Deat to improve the farming and agriculture industries of Georgia. As a way of raising long-depressed cotton prices, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, established during Roosevelt's first 100 days in office, paid farmers to plant less cotton as a means of restricting the supply and driving up the price. The Bankhead Cotton Control Act of 1934 controlled cotton production even more tightly. In 1929, at the start of the depression, farmers had received 16.78 cents a pound for cotton. By 1932 cotton had fallen to 6.52 cents a pound. By setting quotas to limit the acreage of farmland planted with cotton, the price quickly rose, and by 1936 it had reached 12.36 cents a pound. Prices fell again before new programs late in the 1930s helped rescue the growers. Roosevelt's intention was to turn Georgia's struggling, debt-ridden tenant farmers and sharecroppers into self-supporting small farmers. In economic terms, however, the small landowner actually gained less from the federal programs than did planters who owned larger and more mechanized farms (Encyclopedia). President Roosevelt’s campaign to the New Deal had a great effect on Georgia. As you can see his first acts for the New Deal transformed the struggling agriculture industries of Georgia. Georgia isn't the only state that benefited from the Agriculture deal. Many of the southern United States that counted on the agriculture industry to build their economy, also gained from this deal. Atlanta, which is the capital of Georgia, supported the President Roosevelt a great deal. It was released in the Atlanta Journal constitution an article that proclaimed the praises of President Roosevelt: “The 1932 presidential election brought hope to Atlanta as it did to most of the nation. her citizens’ vote of support for Franklin D. Roosevelt by a ten-to-one margin signified both desire for change and admiration of a popular Georgia part-time resident. As FDR developed New Deal programs from 1933 to 1939, Atlanta reacted with great enthusiasm. The New Deal offered a means of combating the depression, a task beyond the resources of Atlanta’s private charities and city government. It also provided an opportunity to build long-needed community facilities, including a sewer system, public housing, and improved streets, schools, and hospitals. Years before his presidency Georgians thought of FDR as their adopted “favorite son” because of his active involvement in Warm Springs. Some leading citizens even urged him to seek the Georgia governorship in 1926. (1) During the early years of the depression, the Atlanta newspapers followed Roosevelt’s political career closely, especially after his presidential nomination. In late October 1932 when FDR visited Atlanta, 25,000 citizens thronged Peachtree Street to watch the candidate pass by in an open car, and the Atlanta Constitution’s headline read “Next President Made Welcome by Vast Throng. Expresses Appreciation for Georgia’s Welcome, Delight at Returning to ‘Other House.’” (2) No one was surprised when traditionally Democratic Fulton County cast 19,044 votes for Roosevelt and only 1,940 for Hoover. When the following March FDR said in his inaugural address, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” hope for long-needed solutions to the city’s ills surged in the hearts of her people. (The article originally appeared in The Atlanta Historical Journal, Volume XXX, Number 1, Spring 1986 and is reprinted with permission.)”.