Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Stormy Weather Video Continued

           On Friday, we finished watching the rest of video of the stormy weather. In the video there was a man named Huey Long and he was a demagogue. He was a man who believed that for people to be able to be equal they had to have the same amount of money, His idea was that he was going to get money from the rich people and give the poor an amount of 5000 dollars each month so that they could buy a house, car, food and clothes. But the thing was that even if he wanted to give poor people the money that he got from the rich was impossible because poor people would only be getting about 400 dollars. There wasn't enough money for everyone to have 5000 dollars a month. President Roosevelt didn't like Huey Long because he thought that he was a threat because he thought that his job as a president was going to go away because he thought that people were going to vote for Huey Long for president. Then president Roosevelt started to change the American Perception about the role of government by giving people jobs and he made people think that that was a revolutionary era. When Roosevelt decided to run for president again he won by 583 to 8 people. Every state voted for him except one and he got 60 percent of the votes. Not only in America was there depression going on, almost every country was going through a depression too, especially Germany but Hitler has promised people jobs and that made Germany escape the Depression. The jobs that he gave the Germans were making weapons for World War 2 but the Germans didn't know.

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