President Hoover Dbq

The year is 1931. America has entered the Great Depression. Millions of people are jobless, homeless, hungry, and desperate. The current president, Herbert Hoover, has done little to combat the economic downtowner and has left many Americans hopeless. But in the election of 1932 America elects Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR inspires millions winning in a landslide. He is inaugurated on March 4 to become the 32nd president of the United States of America. Although, it is not widely known that their was a failed assassination attempt. Giuseppe Zangara attempted to kill FDR in February before he was elected president, but it failed. In a alternate history he could have killed him. In this timeline Roosevelt’s Vice President would have become the president …show more content…
Should have stuck as Speaker of the House. Gave up the second most important job in Government for eight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.
He also was against many of FDR’s more liberal positions. He had disagreed with deficit spending, Roosevelt's attempts to increase the power of the executive branch, and finally broke from him when he attempted to pack the supreme court. John Nance Garner was a democrat, but he was not nearly as liberal as FDR. If John Nance Garner had become president he would not have implemented the same new deal programs due to his more conservative position. Without FDR’s aggressive policy to bring the United States out of the Great Depression the depression now lingers. John Nance Garner would have implemented a more conservative approach. He would have not used deficit spending instead opting to keep a balanced budget throughout the depression. This would have caused a much slower growth in the economy, since much of America’s economic growth was due to deficit spending. When FDR had tried to balance the budget it resulted in economic downturn. All signs point to a prolonged depression if John Nance Garner had become president. Also John Nance Garner’s main focus may not have even been the depression. John Nance Garner was from Texas which at the time was going through a natural disaster, the Dust Bowl. It is very probably to assume that John Nance Garner would have focused less on the depression and more on the disaster affecting his home. These combined factors show that John Nance Garner would have likely led America down a path of

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