FDR's New Deal

After the march at the capital when FDR was elected his wife urged the bonus Army to apply for work with Works Progress Administration. This helped give them hope and jobs and make the money that they lost and never had.

Congress overrode a veto made by Roosevelt in 1936 to give the veterans their bonus 10 years early. This helped by giving the bonus army veterans their promised bonus that they needed.

Also the Social Security Act can provided them with a monthly check since most were elders. This help the older veterans who need it.

Quotes- Breana Chapa

"I was horrified to see plain evidence of hunger in their faces." -Evalyn Walsh

"the movement was actually far deeper and more dangerous than an effort to secure funds from a nearly depleted federal treasury." -Army Chief of Staff MacArthur

"surround the affected area and clear it without delay." –Hoover.

"Flames rose high over the desolate Anacostia flats at midnight tonight,"

"and a pitiful stream of refugee veterans of the World War walked out of their home of the past two months, going they knew not where." –New York Times

David Cadena's Field Notes

As the veterans were here in Washington DC they had nowhere else to go because many of them had came from far away. Families waited here with their loved ones that had deserved the money.

Timothy and James are two kids of a veteran soldier that is trying to get his bonus down in Washington DC. “The children waking from sleep to cough and whimper from the tear gas in their lungs.” C.1932. The government did not want to give these poor families their money that they deserved and now their families are suffering..

As days passed on by the Veterans who foug

ht for our country grew tired of waiting for the money that the congress had promised. The veterans began

to protest for the sack of their families that does not really have a lot of money and who is relying on this.

10,000 veterans, wom

en and children were here at the capital of our country because they could not leave their families behind. In this picture you can see a group of young men who had fought in the war and were all hoping to get their money.

Spring and summer of 1932 some 17,000 veterans and their families were protesting at Washington D.C. many of the veterans worked since the beginning of the great depression. Sought immedieate cash payment.

David Alvarenga field notes on bonus army

May 1932, Washington, D.C
Walter W. Waters was a former Army Sergeant in the United States Army. These veterans were all seeking pensions promised to them by Congress in a 1924 act.



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Here are members of the so-called Bonus Army during the uprising and government intervention of July 29, 1932. They staged a protest in Washington, DC in hopes of obtaining payment of a World War I bonus.

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1932, Washington, D.C.
What is handpainted onto the bonus army truck in this picture states "We Done a Good Job in France, Now You Do a Good Job in America"


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Washington, D.C. 1932.
The Bonus Army assembled some 43,000 marchers including 17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated group to protest. They demanded their bonus cash-payment redemption of their service certificates granted to them eight years earlier via the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924.






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Portland Oregon, May 1932

Walter water set off from Portland going on a 3,000 mile journey to Washington D.C. Soon joined by thousand s of other World War I veterans they sought to claim the bonus the Army was set to pay them, though not until 1945.




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breana- field notes on army veterans

After being promise a dollar a day for their services in War World I the U.S veterans took action. During the great depression, in 1932 the veterans wanted their bonus they felt they helped the U.S during a war, and the U.S should help during time of need. This demanding turned into a violence outbreak because veterans felt they were being taking advantage of. This took place in Washington D.C right in front of the national capital. The Veterans army is taking this very hard they have lost jobs and now are demanding they get what they were promised.



In 1932 during the great Depression, the army veterans were fighting for what they wanted and needed. What they wanted was to get their promised bonus after fighting war world I. They lead a march and protested. This all took place in Washington D.C. The bonus army veterans are doing this to get something they earned and they are feeling betrayed and backstabbed.






These is a picture of five army veterans, on there way to Washington DC to get there promised bonus. They have been in horrible outlooks without jobs and lonely wanting what they been needing. They are hungry and sad. These veterans are on there way to demand their bonus and get hope

This image is the army veterans, who were promised a bonus after servicing time in WWI. This camp is in front of the capital were they were getting ready to march and start a fight between veterans and men servicing in the army at this time. The army veterans felt sad and hurt after having everything taking away and not being giving a bonus as promised. This was in 1932 in Washington DC.

A march by veterans asking for their promised bonus for every day they serviced in the WWI. This was the calm part of the event it gets more exciting as the reach the capital. This took place in July 28, 1932 at Washington DC.

Smoky air, capital in the background, FIRE this all is something that during July 28, 1932. The U.S army started a firer on bonus army veterans camp. This camp was to force the president to give them their promised bonus.