How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt use Fireside Chats to inspire confidence

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Martin Van Buren High School SOCIAL STUDIES 101 Objective: How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt use Fireside Chats to inspire confidence during the Great Depression? Contextualization: ... Closely examine the graph below and answer the three analysis questions that follow.Analysis Questions: 1) Contextualization: ​ American Households had no radios in 1920. In 1935 American Households had approximately 21 million. 2) Contextualization: ​When did the Great Depression start? The Great Depression started 1929. 3) Contextualization: ​When did President Roosevelt’s first term begin? 1933. 4) Contextualization: ​ Because when his term began around 1933 a lot of American households had radios. 5) Contextualization In 1930, most of the audience were the big businessmen and rich people who owned radios. I don’t think that Fireside Chats were an equitable way to reach and update Americans on the Great Depression because only 10% people owned radio during that time. He would address possible solutions to overcome the depression. I would hope for a positive tone which would give people expectation to overcome adversity. Fireside Chats - Primary Source Document Analysis Directions: ​You will be assigned to read primary source documents about one of two economic issues that President Roosevelt addressed through his Fireside Chats, unemployment or bank suspensions. While reading your set of primary source documents, fill out the chart below. When you are done, work with a partner who read the other set of documents and share your findings. Unemployment - Document Analysis Contextualization: ​Unemployment Rate:​ ​The unemployment rate is the percentage of the labor force that is willing and able to work, does not currently have a job, and is actively looking for employment. The labor force consists of people ages 16 and over who are employed or actively seeking work Contextualization: ​Per Capita Personal Income: ​Average income per person in a given area in a specific year, in this case years 1929 - 1933 in the United States. Fireside Chats about Unemployment Excerpt from First, we are giving opportunity of employment to one-quarter of a million of the Bank Suspensions - Document Analysis Contextualization:​ Bank Suspensions:​ ​ Includes all banks closed to the public, either temporarily or Source: Bank suspensions are from U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1960 Excerpt from FDR Fireside Chat about Banking Crisis - March 12, 1933 I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking... I want to tell you what has been done in the last few days, why it was done and what the next steps are going to be.... Fireside Chats Using Evidence Objective How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt use Fireside Chats to inspire confidence during the Great Depression? Directions: ​Using information from the document above, please respond to the following task. Task: ​Using the documents above, and your knowledge of US history - respond to the prompt below: The image below was drawn by Fred O. Seibel in 1933. It first appeared in the ​Richmond Times - Dispatch​. In two well written paragraphs: Compare the image of FDR below to the image he exhibits through his Fireside Chats excerpted above. ● Explain how he demonstrates confidence in the Fireside Chats and compare this to the tools the artist uses to imply his confidence in the image below. ○ How are they similar? How are they different? [Show More]

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