Question

What impact did the Great Depression have on American party politics?

What evidence is there of a Southern Democratic voting block?

How would this Southern Democratic block effect FDR’s position on African Americans and Civil Rights?

What evidence is there that 1936 was a big landslide year for FDR?

If you were FDR what lessons would you gain from looking at the results of 1940 and 1944 elections?

FDR’s voting block would not be changed until Ronald Reagan? Which part or parts of the country would you expect to switch to the Republicans based on how people vote today?

What groups make up the Democratic and Republican Parties today? When did it change?

Answer 1

Answer: The Depression affected politics by shaking confidence in unfettered capitalism. That type of laissez-faire economics is what President Herbert Hoover advocated, and it had failed. As a result, people voted for President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). His Keynesian economics promised that government spending would end the Depression.

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