Answer: Franklin Roosevelt gave his campaign speech on October 24, 1932. In his speech, he focused on the several problems facing agriculture and farmers.
Explanation:
Some of the problems he identified were facing the nation were:
- high taxation of farmers, and low price of agricultural products which kept the agricultural industry in the great depression
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- Complicated data gathering without enough action in Washington. There was also a general red tape around agriculture in which political secretaries of agriculture were not people farmers could identify with
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- A bill had been passed which increased the funds to buy stock in the federal land bank from $100,000,000 to $125,000,000 but the amount was not properly administered
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- Several older millions of acres of land had been cleared for agriculture instead of being left to produce forest crops
Answer:
Because they believed that the devil was acting through witches and they believed that the devil was acting in their territories.
Explanation:
The New England region promoted many adverse situations for the colonists. The cold climate, the conflict between two native tribes in the region and the spread of smallpox cases made Puritan settlers believe that the devil was close to the region and that he would continue to act negatively on their lives.
For them the devil was able to act through witches and as the population was facing many problems (in addition to the many deaths that occurred), they began to distrust each other, which initiated a vast and crazy search for witches and signs of witchcraft in the population.
