Roosevelt's Fireside Chats
President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave thirty different fireside chats between 1933 and 1944. He used the fireside chats to explain his policies and to ask for the American people's support of his policies.
Assignment: Write 1 - 2 paragraphs for each of the chats below that identifies how the policies discussed in the chat furthered the goals of relief, recovery, and reform. |
Fireside Chat 2Fireside Chat 2. Outlining the New Deal Program. Sunday, May 7, 1933
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/1933-05-08_President_Speaks_To_The_Nation |
Fireside Chat 4Fireside Chat 4. On the Currency Situation. Sunday, October 22, 1933
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/1933-10-23_President_Outlines_Recovery_Progress |
Fireside Chat 5Fireside Chat 5. Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress. Thursday, June 28, 1934 Source: http://www.archive.org/details/1934-06-27_President_Reports_To_Nation |
Fireside Chat 6Fireside Chat 6. On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Security. Sunday, September 30, 1934
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/Roosevelt_Asked_To_Ban_On_Strikes |
Fireside Chat 7Fireside Chat 7. On the Works Relief Program. Sunday, April 28, 1935
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/1935-04-29_FDR_Sees_Fear_Vanishing |
Fireside Chat 12Fireside Chat 12. On Economic Conditions. Thursday, April 14, 1938
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/1938-04-20_World-Wide_News_Events |