In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected the 32nd President of the United States. He was elected at a time when the Great Depression was truly destroying the country. By the time his first term really started in March, there were over 13 million people unemployed and nearly half the banks had failed.
FDR was elected with the promise of providing relief to everyone struggling. He gave them hope and helped them to regain faith in themselves. FDR's aims in his "new deal" proposal were relief, recovery, and reform. He focused firstly on the banks. Then he went on to focus on creating relief acts to help the poor. |