The Bonus ArmyThe Depression Deepens:- Hoover made great strides in repairing the damage, however his efforts were too little too late- __________________________________________for not acting significantly, quickly enough

______________________: shacks where the homeless lived

Hoover blankets: __________________used by the homeless to keep warm when they slept outside

Hoover __________________: cardboard patches used to cover holes in shoes

Hoover Stew: thin, watery soup that the homeless received in __________________________

The Bonus Army:- While most people waited for the gov’t to step in, ________________________________________- After WW1, Congress voted to give vets a _______________: additional sum of money to be paid in 1945

1932 – 20,000 jobless vets marched to D.C. to demand the bonus NOW

_____________________________: 20,000 veterans who had marched to D.C. to receive their WW1 bonuses ______ years early & had camped in a tent city along the Potomac River

HOR voted to give the vets the bonus immediately, but the Senate rejected the bill

- Senators thought the _______would prevent gov’t action to aid the country’s recovery - Police tried to force the vets to leave - Vets protested that they would stay until ___________if necessary - After all, they were living on the __________back in their home towns anyway - Cavalry ___________________________________________were used to force vets out - The camp was __________________________________

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a governor in Albany NY- He hated how Hoover responded to the Bonus Army & knew that the American people were caught in something they didn’t understand- He decides to run as the ________________president of a “new America” & believed that gov’t should take an ________role in the economy

FDR:- Came from a _____________, influential family

- Went to Harvard & Columbia Law School- Married a distant cousin – Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

- Believed the ___________had a responsibility to help the _______- During ________, served as assistant secretary of the navy

- 1920 – Democratic candidate for VP but lost in the Harding landslide- 1932 he beat out ___________, easily

1921 – FDR is stricken with ____________: a disease

caused by a virusHis legs were paralyzed

A Call to Action:- At his inauguration “I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people”- Promised to help the ___________________________________________- He won many seats in _______________________________

America was shocked & knew it was time for a new leader“What a pitiful spectacle is that of the great American

government, mightiest in the world, chasing unarmed men, women & children with tanks…if the army must be called out to

make war on unarmed citizens, this is no longer America” –Washington News ‘46