Essays on Franklin D. Roosevelt

People of Moral Excellence Franklin D. Roosevelt Measuring excellence by morality is a difficult thing to do. One way this can be done is by looking at how a person has helped others and how many people this person has helped. Using these measuring tools...

Presidential Library Project In 1939 the Presidential Library system began thanks to President Franklin D. Roosevelt after he donated all of his presidential papers to the Federal Government to keep. President Roosevelt also donated part of his Hyde Park estate to the United States to...

While listening to Roosevelt’s first fireside chat, I was most intrigued by the intent of his speech. On the surface, the president’s first widespread radio communication was about educating the public on changes made within the banking system. In his rhetoric, he made no implications...

FDR was born on January 30th,1882 in Hyde Park, New York. His parents are James Roosevelt and Sara Delano Roosevelt. They educated him with tutors who taught him almost all of his education. He then started to attend Groton, a private school in Massachusetts for...

The stock market crash of 1929 set off a chain of events that drove the United States into the Great Depression. Many went through unemployment which caused numerous of problems in their lives. At this time they were under the control of President Hoover. President...

Infamy has proven to be a befitting choice of words as the tragic Pearl Harbor incident is still remembered and memorialized today as the turning point of World War II. In an effort to sway fellow congressman to officially declare war on Japan and to...

Several years into the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt was elected president under the Democratic ticket. The Great Depression was a time of crisis for America; almost a fourth of the labor force was unemployed, and many more only worked part time. Thousands of banks failed...

The unemployment rate rose sharply during the Great Depression and reached its peak at the moment Franklin D. Roosevelt took office. As New Deal programs were enacted, the unemployment rate gradually lowered. ( Bureau of Labor Statistics) The new deal was a program where they...

The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1940 and was the most exceedingly bad financial downturn in the historical backdrop of the industrialized world. It started after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into frenzy and wiped out a huge...

In-Class Essay: Executive Order 9066 The overreach of executive power by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Executive Order 9066 demonstrates how executive orders are an abuse of power by the President of the United States and that they are deliberately designed to toe the line of...

On December 7th, 1941, Pearl Harbor, a United States Naval base located around Oahu, was unexpectedly and ruthlessly attacked by Japanese air forces. In accordance to this unprecedented attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues unto congress one of today’s most infamous speeches. Throughout this speech,...