In 1932 the Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidential election and began a period of public spending unprecedented in American history to combat the Great Depression. Roosevelt made gestures aimed at granting new rights to African-Americans, and his policies also saved many of them from unemployment and poverty. Since the Roosevelt administration, the black vote was changing regularly to have supported the Republicans to form a solid bloc in favor of the Democrats. Ironically, in those years the Southern Democratic Party was the most powerful opponent to the advancement of civil rights for African Americans.
Montezuma treated the strangers on the coast like gods and accordingly gave them vast expensive gifts, due to their pale skin and the way that they had landed on the coast.
