History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1507 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Nothing to Fear
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The idea
On March fourth, nineteen thirty-three, with a quarter of the workforce jobless, Roosevelt told the nation that the only thing it had to fear was fear itself.
In practice
A president demanding, in Digital History's quotation, broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency.
Where people slip
Farm foreclosures were averaging twenty thousand a month, Digital History adds.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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