1932

Party

Democratic

Republican

 

Candidate

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Herbert C. Hoover

Electoral Count

472

59

Popular Vote

57.4%

39.7%

Key Terms: 1932 Election

  1. stock market crash

  2. Great Depression
  3. Veterans Bonus March
  4. "balanced budget"
  5. prohibition
  6. ‘Happy Days . . ."
  7. New Deal
  8. relief, reform, regulation
  9. "brain trust"

 

 

Key Terms: F. D. Roosevelt Administration

  1. New Deal

  2. First Hundred Days
  3. "fireside chats"
  4. Bank Holiday
  5. Banking Act 1933
  6. NRA/Blue Eagles
  7. AAA/Farm Credit Act
  8. PWA, CWA, WPA, CCC
  9. Harold Ickes - Harry Hopkins
  10. Security Exchange Commission
  11. Tennessee Valley Authority
  12. Schechter v. United States
  13. Counklin, Long, and Townsend
  14. Social Security Act
  15. Wagner Act
  16. "court packing plan"
  17. Fair Labor Standards Act
  18. Neutrality Acts
  19. "cash and carry"
  20. "lend-lease"
  21. Good Neighbor Policy
  22. Attack on Pearl Harbor
  23. World War II

A Democratic doggerel commemorated Sectary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon as well as President Hoover:

Mellon pulled the whistle
Hoover rang the bell
Wall St. gave the signal
And the country went to hell

Presidential Campaigns, Paul F. Boller, Jr., Oxford University Press, New York, 1984.