Franklin roosevelt tried to speak directly with the american people to ease fears about the economic crisis through:

a: regular fireside chats on the radio

b: monthly press conferences on television

c: first president to have a press secretary

d: frequent state of the union addresses

frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. but frederick disliked rifle shooting and horseback riding. unlike his father, he was interested in french literature. he enjoyed poetry and music and, like some others of the enlightenment, he scoffed at religion. his father thought him soft, frivolous and unmindful of his duties. and when frederick refused to put his signature on a right to succession, for a few moments his father strangled him.