FDR's First Inaugural Address: Declaring War on the Great Depression
(Complete Item Description)
- Abstract:
This lesson includes Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural address, in which he said, I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis [the Depression] broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.
- Subject:
- Humanities, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Primary, Secondary
- Collection:
- National Archives and Records Administration
