When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in the election of 1932, he had plans to stop the depression. These plans were called the New Deal. The first hundred days were the most hectic. Laws were passed almost daily. These laws affected many people. Before the first hundred days wer...

EXPLAIN THE MAIN FEATURES OF THE NEW DEAL. The New Deal was a series of laws passed by Roosevelt to solve the problems caused in the USA by the Depression. The USA was out of work and almost everyone lost their life saving money and there was no way to achieve it back. A lot of people were also s...

The stock market crash of 1929 helped launch the United States and many other nations into the worst economic depression in history. The severity of the Great Depression called for federal government programs to protect the general welfare of citizens. The New Deal programs created by Franklin D. Ro...

Trying to get a job during the 1930's could prove troublesome, or impossible. So how did they manage to survive? Anyone can tell you that the 1930's were no picnic. Unemployment was up to 600% in 1933 from 1928, leaving 12.8 million people without jobs. 4,004 banks were suspend...

FDR When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the country was in horrible economic condition, banks were collapsing, businesses were failing and the stock market continued to plummet. Promising the "New Deal" in his candidacy, he took bold action as leader of the country again...

When FDR took office in 1933, the nation was obviously ready for some great changes. In the thick of the Great Depression, America needed someone who could join the nation together and get the economy back where it once was. Franklin Roosevelt proved, for the most part, to be the perfect man for th...