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President Roosevelt campaign poster that compares how President Hoover let the people

fall into bread lines, homelessness, and the banks closing and President Roosevelt gave the

people higher wedges, lower rent homes and social security.

This poster was used for President Roosevelts re-election campaign. This poster has two

purposes. The first is to remind the citizens of the United States of the drastic changes that have

been made to their quality of life and general wellbeing. The second purpose is to use

Roosevelts portrait in the center of the poster, diving the negative paste and the positive future;

Roosevelts presidency is intended to be a transition that leads to a better future with the new

deal.

The significance of this poster as it relates to the time frame is that one side of the poster,

the United states id depicted in early depression phases including bread lines, high rates of

homeless people and banks being closed. On the other side of the poster we see the United States

working its way out of the depression with Roosevelts New Deal, this is reparented by higher
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wedges, low income houses and social security. Many New Deal program reforms still exist

today to better the United States citizens.

This poser was used during the 1936 Presidential Election to promote Roosevelts

Presidential campaign. Roosevelt was campaigning against republican Alfred Landon, and was

relying heavily on his works around economic and agricultural reform to lead to re-election.

This artifact can be used in my unit lesson plan in writing to represent a time when the

United States was having great struggles with the Great Depression. It shows how President

Roosevelt could so easily be elected again over Alfred Landon. The reason being the President

Roosevelt brought salvation to the people during the Great Depression. He wanted to prove the

he could do what no other President could do. He brought reforms, relief and recovery in other

words The New Deal.