Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Response To The Great Depression

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the governor of New York, and progressed from a seat in the New York State legislature to a position as assistant secretary of the navy during WWI to his party vice presidential nnomination in 1920 .He was a distant cousin of Theodore Rosevelt and was often described as a handsome and charming yound man. Once he was hti with polio he never regained use of his legs.He walked by usig braces and cruches and returned to politics in 1928. He was vry popular amungst the people andbeat Hoover by a land slide in the election of 1932. Hoover had left American in a crisis that FDR was determined to fix. He repidly contructed a ambitious and diverse program of legislature. His early success was mostly because of his personallity.
Roosevelt sent to Congress the Emergency Banking Act, a bill that protected bigger banks from being dragged down by smaller banks. Banks soon opened back up after congress passed this bil and the naking crisis was over.He soon after passed many bills that gained the trust of the peopel, helped many people, and loooked after Americans future. The New Deal was FDR's response to the Great Depression. The New Deal didn't really end the Great Depression. FDR was basically a born politicians. He said that it was the government's job to help every citizen make a comfortable wage. The New Deal was a set of government programs set to fix the depression and prevent any future depression. The relief programs gave help to poor people in need. The recovery programs were short term fixes that put people back to work. Reform programs were there to regulate the economy in the