Franklin D Roosevelt Informative Essay

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was The United States 32nd president and served four terms, in those years he would make a great transformation to America. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, to James Franklin I and Sarah Ann Delano, his parents were sixth cousins and were both from wealthy families. Franklin grew up in a very rich family and had many privileges, one time his father even took him to visit president Grover Cleveland and Cleveland told him “ I have one wish for you, little man, that you will never be President of the United States." He would go on frequent trips to Europe, become an avid golfer He also learned to ride, shoot, row, play polo and lawn tennis and sail.His father gave him a sailboat at age 16 .He would grow up …show more content…

In 1928 he would become New York’s newest Governor. When he was soon president in 1932 the country was a mess and FDR had a lot of work to do with the country. There were 13 million people unemployed and just about all of the banks had been shut down, FDR proposed his plan “100 days” which stated that in the first 100 days we would be able to recovery business and agriculture and relief to the unemployed. We stated he would also relieve those in danger of losing farms or houses for this he would establish the Tennessee Valley Authority. By 1935 the country had been recovered a little bit but businessmen and bankers would turn more against FDR’s “Square Deal” plan, they didn't like his experiments they felt that he had taken the country off its “gold standard” they also weren’t happy about leaving deficits in the budget. They were not very happy with work concessions either, this led to Roosevelt creating Social Security a program that would put heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the

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