Question

Need to make a pamphlet convincing Americans to accept the new deal. Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Sounds like a fun project. You've already researched the history of the time, and know what arguments FDR made to the people? (I once knew this, but have long forgotten.) Obviously, you will be working with those arguments, or at least in some awareness of them. If you can sketch the general ideas of the time for us, maybe some of us can help you brainstorm ideas for your project.

Will this pamphlet be serious or is it meant to be sort of fun?

Answer 2

Serious. To get FDR elected again if he were to run for a third term.

Answer 3

Well, I know that the New Deal was mainly a set of plans for bettering the economy and helped in different areas. I know one that my teacher said to focus on, the Civil Works Administration, which helped get unemployed working.
Other than that, I have little idea. I missed the notes that day

Answer 4

Ahhhh, and this is so not my area. My husband is due home shortly and he is like a total history whiz. I will ask him.

Answer 5

Thank you

Answer 6

Okay, so here's what I've got, much (if not all) of which you may already know.

The programs that FDR had set in motion were working very well, and the economy was improving after the depression. They were building dams, they were building post offices, they were building national parks. They improved roads, schools, playgrounds. All of these programs were putting people back to work. At the same time, war was sweeping through Europe -- Hitler was on the rampage (though many of his atrocities were not widely known at the time) -- and the US was still determined to stay out of it.

So, he would have been running on his accomplishments -- the great turnaround from the poverty and hunger that held most of America throughout the decade -- and perhaps also on the pledge of keeping the country out of war. Don't forget that war makes people afraid, and they would have had trust in FDR based on what he had been able to accomplish so far. Many would have been afraid of change.

But the move to run for a third term was also unprecedented, and it would have made some people uneasy. So you'll have to decide whether to address this issue head on or not in your pamphlet. Maybe just stressing expertise and accomplishments is the best route to go. And implicit counter to the argument that he ought not to run a third term, rather than an explicit one, in other words.

Check out the "Election of 1940" here and also the last paragraph in the section just before that, "Foreign Policy, 1937-1941" --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

Answer 7

My gosh, thank you soooooo much!

Answer 8

No prob. :)

Check out this too, which I just found . . .

http://www.schillerinstitute.org/educ/hist/eiw_this_week/v1n35_nov7_1933.html

And now, I have to go eat dinner! Ciao . . .

Answer 9

Dinner, always good :D

Answer 10

Food, yum. :D