Today was also a work day. Mr. Bruns told us that our projects are due on Tuesday and we have another work day on Monday. Today i researched Franklin D. Roosevelt's first hundred days. Roosevelt became president at a very bad time and he needed to gain the peoples trust and needed to reassure them that things could and would be fixed. In his inaugural speech FDR said, "This nation asks for action, and action now. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require." FDR set the hundred day standard that every president since him has been judged by. Roosevelt faced an unemployement percent of 25 percent, banks closing and depositors losing their life savings, and businesses going bankrupt and shutting down. Many people doubted Roosevelt because he was a democrat.FDR passed 15 bills his first hundred days of presidency. Some of them were... The Federal Emergency Relief Administration supplied states and local communities with the governments money to help the unepmployed who couldn't get jobs. During the first winter of FDR's presidency, The Civil Works Administration created jobs for people. The FDIC protected banks. The Civilian Conservation Corps offered jobs to unemployed young men. The Works Progress Administration replaced FERA, which put more money into circulation and concentrated on longer projects. The Public Works Administration helped people get jobs like, construction in things like, water systems, hospitals, and powerplants. All of these bills and such were just a minor part of FDR's the "New Deal." FDR really showed how the federal government helps. Some people still don't believe it was FDR's experiment, the New Deal that changed the economy, but it was WWII.http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/history/2009/02/12/the-first-100-days-franklin-roosevelt-pioneered-the-100-day-concept.html
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