Presidential Election

• Herbert Hoover

  Republican President from 1928 to 1933

  Believed in laissez-faire and rugged individualism

  Did more than any other Republican president

  Said that soon all Americans would have 'two cars in every garage and a chicken in every pot'
• Herbert Hoover

  Not a great public speaker

  Belief in rugged individualism made him look uncaring
• Roosevelt

  Belonged to the Democratic Party

  Organised the navy in WW1 but contracted polio

  Spent 20 million of tax money helping the unemployed

  Relief - help for the old, sick unemployed and homeless

  Recovery - government schemes to provide jobs

  Reform - Make America better place and ensure it doesn't happen again

  Made roughly 15 speeches a day
• Roosevelt

  Won with a landslide 42 out of 48 states voted for him

  FDR's disability helped as people voted for him because they thought he had the right experience to help America

  They saw him as someone who had overcome great personal difficulties