Amendment+XX

Emily and Katelyn Amendment XX __Change of Terms,sessions, and inauguration__ This amendment was proposed on March 2,1932 and was ratified on January 23,1933. Amendment number twenty changed when the new presidents started office. President Franklin Roosevelt passed this amendment to let the presidents and their vice-presidents take office on January twentieth of the following year instead of March. Before this amendemnt was passed, the old presidents stayed in office until March. During the time between, the presidents didn't really do anything which gave them the name lame duck presidents. The amendment also said that newly elected congress would start on January third. This amendment was passed right after the Great Depression. President Roosevelt passed this amendment to reform the country. After President Roosevelt passed the twentieth amendment, he also passed the Repeal of Prohibition which which allowed the government to tax liquor sales. Soon after the Repeal of Prohibition, The Banking Crisis struck and over five thousand banks had shut down.Roosevelt, like with the twentieth amendment sponsored the Emergancy Banking Act. There was also a great deal of unemployment at this time. President Franklin Roosevelt had sponsored the twentieth amendment to make the Presidential Inauguration a quicker process. Forty-eight states ratified the twentieth amendment and it took three hundred and twenty seven days to take action. Also at this time,the Holocaust was a big factor throughout the world. This put alot of pressure on Roosevelt with tensions rising between countries. Around the time of the Holocaust, was the typhus epidemic in Russia. This was a severe disease with a high fever, headache, and rashes caused rickettsia prowazekii which cause thousands to die. Amendment twenty has improved the country by making sure there is never a time when our leaders aren't at their strongest.

[] sources: America Is: seventh and eighth grade sicial studies book usconstitution.net u-s-history.com factmonster.com