FDR & the 100 Days
FDR is potentially the main reason why America recovered from the Great Recession. From his 100 days, to his New Deal, he gave America the ability to pull themselves out of the recession. He offered people hope by using the Keynes standard of economics: spending money to make money.
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F.D. Roosevelt
- Introduced many new policies during first 100 days of office
- Introduces the New Deal.
- Longest serving American 1933-1945 (4 terms)
- 13 million unemployed when elected
- Infantile paralysis
- Dies of a brain hemorrhage in 1945
The New Deal
- Make work projects.
- To be done in the first 100 days of FDR's administration.
- Following John Maynard Keynes economical theories
- Building of the Interstates, Hoover Damn etc.