in its third year of depression. Factories that were once buzzing, were now silent, and unsold crops lay to rot in the fields (7,98). There were more than one half million homeowners who had lost their homes or farms, partially due to millions of dollars in life savings lost in thousands of banks that had failed (7,98). Although Roosevelt knew that the depression could spell doom for the United States, he reassured the people by stating, ÒThe only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Ó At the same time, Roosevelt carried the United States out of decline and into recovery with his famous Òhundred daysÓ. During this period he won approval of 15 major legislative decisions, all of which contributed to his visionary program--the New Deal.
             The New Deal was the single most important factor in the recovery of the United States from The Great Depression. FDRÕs New Deal fundamentally altered the relationship of the government to its people (7,98). Roosevelt believed that the democratic government had a responsibility to help Americans in distress, but not as a matter of charity, but as a matter of social duty.Therefore his first goal was to secure jobs with as many people as possible -- one of the ways Roosevelt set about this was to form groups like the Civilian Conservation Corps in order to organize massive public works projects. Groups like the CCC put millions to work building schools, roads, libraries, and hospitals; repairing bridges; digging conservation trails; and painting murals on public buildings (7,98). In addition to creating groups for the construction of massive public works projects, FDR also created organizations to aid the economy in other ways through the New Deal. For example, the Securities and Exchange commission was given the task of regulating the stock market, in order to prevent another crash (7,98). The deal also allocated federal funds toward protecting home mortgages so that people could keep t...