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Franklin D. Roosevelt And The Temporary Emergency Relief Administration

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In Albany, Franklin D Roosevelt was beginning to get popular due to his ideas on the subject. He founded an agency called the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, also known as TERA. This program helped unemployed families have enough money to take care of themselves, and also created jobs for them to work for wages. Due to the success of the TERA, Roosevelt ran for president, and won. Within the first months of his presidency he formed the Federal Emergency Relief Agency (FERA), which offered job training and created new jobs. They also made use of surplus crops and made the system of school lunches, so that no child had to go hungry. Roosevelt also closed all of the nation's banks and reopened the ones that were the most stable, which

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