The American Dream and Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The American Dream and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The American Dream means many things to many people. To Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it meant peace, prosperity, and the well being of the American people. Although events like the Great Depression and World War II threatened these ideals, Roosevelt stood up to the challenges in front of him and met them head on. His aggressive New Deal programs helped stop unemployment and as war in Europe loomed on the horizon, he prepared the American people for the fight of their lives that would change the world and the American Dream as they knew it.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was given many opportunities by his wealthy parents to succeed. When he was 14 he went to the classy Groton School, and later went to Harvard College. He went to Columbia Law School and when he was 23 he married Eleanor Roosevelt, his distant cousin and niece to Theodore Roosevelt. In 1910, Roosevelt was elect...