President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Response To The Great Depression

After the end of President Hoover’s term, Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office! He was on a mission to end the Great Depression! He formulated a series of laws and programs to provide the country with relief, reform, and recovery. This would be called the First New Deal which happened during his first 100 days in office.

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The new deal was a set of relief programs to provide out of work Americans with jobs as well as acts and agencies to not only help re-build the economy, but also to ensure that a repetition of the depression never occurred. Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised the nation that his first act of presidency would be to implement the new deal in a hundred days of action if he was elected. The new deal had three ...

FDR passed so many things during the New Deal that some people nickname it as alphabet soup, FDR helped stimulate the economy by creating jobs, he enacted the PWA, WPA which both created jobs for young men by making them work on public works, these works included the Fort Peck Dam and the Bonneville Power and Navigation Dam. FDR also enacted FERA which was the first time the U.S government would give money directly to the people. FERA would be the start of a system that is around today. Without FERA the Welfare system in America would have never been started. This welfare system is, when not abused by the people, a system that lets poorer people get a meal and helps with them being able to get back on their feet. The PWA and WPA along with organizations like them would help to end the Great Depression by creating jobs and in creating jobs FDR was regulating the

Back in October 29, 1929 – 1939 the world faced a severe economic depression. The timing of it varied across nations. People who invested in the stock market lost all their money. On March 4, 1933 Franklin Roosevelt started The New Deal for americans that were suffering from it. The new deal had three R’s relief, recovery, and reform. The need for social welfare was indefinite during the great depression due to everyone panicking over their money. SInce then the government still provides aid to families in

The Great Depression was a time were very few had money or even a job. Many people were losing their houses for their debt. Shanty towns were made for the homeless. Many say that president Hoover didn’t do enough to help get out of the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a bad time for Americans.

The Great Depression was hard time for people in the United States. It all started on October 29, 1929 when the stock market crashed. The stock market then made the unemployment rate go up to 25%. More than 3.2 million people were unemployed, up from 1.5 million before the October, 1929 crash.The street corners of New York City were crowded with apple-sellers. Nearly 6,000 unemployed individuals work at selling apples for five cents apiece. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt is elected President in landslide against Hoover. After almost a half a year in office FDR announces a four-day bank holiday to begin on Monday, March 6. During that time, FDR promises, Congress will work on coming up with a plan to save the failing banking industry. In May 1933

“Don't allow our doubts today limit our tomorrow.”-Franklin D Roosevelt. The Great Depression started in 1929 and ended in 1939.What might of triggered the great depression to happen is that all the stock markets crashed and a lot of people were left without jobs. After all the stock markets crashed many people were left without jobs and no money for the basic needs.

On March 4, 1933, at the top of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt made his first inaugural speech in front of 100,000 people on Washington’s Capitol Plaza. That’s when he said “Don’t fear anything but fear itself.” which would give hope to Americans during the great depression. After FDR addressed his speech, the people knew he was the right man to elect as president as he was gonna take a big bold step.

Franklin Roosevelt came into office on March 3rd, 1933. His administration commonly called The New Deal constructed a series programs and plans to help reform the government. The New Deal in itself didn’t bring an end to the Great Depression, WW2 did that. However, it did create many of the broad outlines of the political world we know today.