I think it is because they wanted to find a bird worthy of power
The Great Depression had started; including an immense bank crisis. Franklin Roosevelt's mandate as a first-term President was clear and challenging: rescue the United States from the throes of its worst depression in history. Economic conditions had deteriorated in the four months between Franklin Roosevelt's election and his inauguration. Unemployment grew to over twenty-five percent of the nation's workforce, with more than twelve million Americans out of work. A new wave of bank failures hit in February 1933. Upon accepting the Democratic nomination, Franklin Roosevelt had promised a "New Deal" to help America out of the Depression, though the meaning of that program was far from clear.
In the late 19th century, white settlers in the west clashed with Native American people over land and natural resources. When several tribes resisted settlement on reservations, the U.S. government fought for control in a series of conflicts called the “Indian Wars”
General Winfield Scott wanted to blockade all Eastern and Southern ports in the Confederate state, divide the south by claiming the mississippi river, and to take over Tennesse valley and then go to the Georgia coast.