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A. The Fireside Chats were radio speeches Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave throughout his presidency in the Great Depression. They were significant because during this time the American people were in the middle of the worst period of economic decline in history. The fireside chats reinforced the feeling that with the new president the economy would improve and their lives would begin to ease. They also helped people respect their president more because when he would give his speech he was telling America what he was doing to make their lives easier and end the depression. The respect FDR earned during his initial term helped him get reelected three more times.
The radio helped change the style of national politics. Americans trusted the radio more than the daily News. Radios were in over a million homes by the Great Depression. FDR delivered sixteen fireside chats with in the two terms he was president. Not all chats were successful; most didn’t even make it through the whole nation.
The Dust Bowl demonstrated the relationship between weathering, erosion, and the biosphere. By removing the native vegetative cover of large areas of the Great Plains and converting it to wheat farming, an unsustainable land use caused the destruction of top soil and the destruction of the farm enterprises that were dependent upon the soil. The result was the concept of soil conservation and changes in agricultural practices.

The other significance of it is that it demonstrates how changes in land use by agriculture can contribute to climate change. NASA studies have shown that the Dust Bowl climate was related to sea surface temperatures, but also that land use practices of the time created a feedback system in the climate that made the droughts worse than they would have been if natural land cover had been preserved.
B)     When reading the article; God’s Gift to the U.S”, it states that Roosevelt was the most loved and hated president. Roosevelt was a practical person, and... [continues]

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