Fdr's First Inaugural Address Analysis

The Great Depression Between the years of 1929 and 1939, many people worldwide was devastated and desperate due to the Great Depression. American citizens often starved with having little to no food in their homes. The Dust Bowl left many with dried-up, withered away crops. The drought affected farmers and their fields greatly. With the stock market crash of 1929, 659 banks closed. Depositors were left with nothing. The financial gains from the previous year were gone. Many suicides were committed; businessmen did not want to live with what lay ahead of them. Due to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, European countries no longer wanted to buy American-made items due to the increased tariffs. This would result in egregious conditions, leaving many Americans hopeless. Soon, the Depression would become worldwide.
In Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address, he made many assertions that this Nation would be reconditioned. Roosevelt mentions how our constitutional system had had been through substandard situations, hence they would get through this calamity with great effort put forth by himself and the citizens of the United States. Many people, including Caroline A. Henderson, was depression-stricken, yet unyielding survivors who helped Roosevelt. Mrs. Henderson had lived on a farm consisting of 640 acres for 28 years with her husband, Will, in Oklahoma. In the year of 1935, during the dust bowl, Mrs. Henderson witnessed numerous families move, relocating to a more sustainable environment. She felt that if she were to move that she would feel as if she had given up on her farm that she had made memories with her husband on. The dust storms were inconsiderate, showing no mercy and would suffocate people without hesitation. “In these families there had been two deaths from dust pneumonia. Others in the neighborhood were ill at that time” (Henderson, The