Franklin D Roosevelt's Inaugural Address Analysis

The United States just arrived out of a bitter period. World War I just ended, and the United States took harsh measures and did whatever was needed to end the war. Shortly after WWI, the United States stepped into a period of invention, celebrities, writers, and mass pop culture. The United States started using automobiles as transportation, which made trading and transportation better and quicker. Advertising became a huge deal, and celebrities, like Babe Ruth, arose out of nowhere. By the 1920’s, majority of the population lived in the urban area, and immigrants began to show back up in search for jobs. Of course, with every era something tremendous has to happen, for example, The Great Depression followed in the 1930’s. The stock market

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inaugural address was motivational and inspiring. Roosevelt never tried to cover up the bad situation that America was in. He stated, “This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today.” Franklin also says that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. He inspires the Americans to face the hardships that the U.S. was facing and overcome them. Roosevelt announced some of the issues that the U.S. was dealing with, for example, taxes have risen, the ability to pay has fallen, and the savings of many years of families was completely gone. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inaugural address proves that America did act responsible during this period because Roosevelts first concern when entering into office was to fix the issues, and he did by claiming that his greatest primary task was to put people to work. Roosevelt created programs to help the nation get through the depression, for example, Roosevelt declared, “Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people 's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.” Roosevelt carried out