Why is FDR so positive in his second inaugural address about the future of the nation?

After reading Chapters 25 and 26 of your textbook and the linked YAWP readings and watching the linked videos, consider the following:
What is Herbert Hoover’s message to voters regarding the New Deal, and by extension, why they should vote for him again?
In Lester Hunter’s “I’d Rather Not Be on Relief”, what would the speaker rather do? Why does that seem to be impossible?
Dorothy West gives us a different viewpoint of the Great Depression era. What world do we get a glimpse of from her writing? What suddenly changes the mood of the mixed-race crowd?
Why is FDR so positive in his second inaugural address about the future of the nation?
How did the Key Programs from the First New Deal propose to help the economy and the American people?
From the Second New Deal, which programs are still active today?

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