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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the most powerful and influential democratic presidents that the United States has ever put into office. Though he was diagnosed with polio and had to be confined to a wheelchair, for many years Roosevelt tried to regain the ability to walk by swimming . He still managed to lead this country out of the worst economic depression the country had seen in its young life. Many Americans were out of work with the depression going on and banks were closed because people kept withdrawing money so they would not be affected by the economic downfall. Roosevelt wasted no time upon his presidential start and immediately started working with Congress to get out of this depression. With both of his “New Deal” plans he started to turn the country around and make plenty of enemies while doing so.
Roosevelt took action quickly as he reached the oval office because of the famous “First 100 Days” in which Roosevelt met with Congress one hundred times to pass laws that would start the recovery process . He was inaugurated on March 4th, 1932 in the middle of a serious bank crisis which he quickly started to act on by passing the Glass-Steagall Act which created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. This corporation was founded to insure customers that their money would stay their money if anything happened; up to $250,000 would return to you . Now that he had begun to rebuild the trust people had in banks, he had to turn and face the out of control

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