Question
Barack Obama claimed to be carefully studying this time period during a 60 Minutes interview from November 2008. For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this time period. The first reference to it comes from the third Fireside Chat, delivered on July 24th, which asks for a “little quiet thought to examine” accomplishments made during it.
ANSWER: the first 100 days of FDR’s presidency [accept any answer referring to the first hundred days of a presidency; prompt on FDR administration or similar answers]
[10e] That Fireside Chat described the rapid creation of this set of policies, which created the Civilian Conservation Corps and a host of other agencies, by a “Brain Trust” of presidential advisors.
ANSWER: New Deal
[10h] In his first inaugural address, Franklin Roosevelt declared that “The Nation asks for [this word], and [this word] now!” foreshadowing the commotion of his first hundred days.
ANSWER: action [accept “action, and action now!”]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 33% | 17% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 9 | 24.44 | 167% | 56% | 22% |
Data
| Texas A | Appalachian State | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UBC A | Iowa A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Michigan State A | Rice A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Texas A&M B | Sorbonne | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont A | Texas A&M A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| UW A | Iowa B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |