I could never be convinced, by anyone, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration to the Great Depression was not effective. When Roosevelt stepped into office he had multiple problems on his hands. Alongside the Great Depression as a whole, there were many events and or causes leading up to it that had to be corrected in order for it to end. The stock market crash in 1929 was the “icing” on the cake for the time. Thankful for the United States getting their nation pulled back together during the 1920’s-1930’s, a person by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the man behind it. He created something called the “New Deal” which set many laws in motion to help pull each citizen of the United States out of their debt, but as a nation, the Depression. During this time unemployment rates were extremely low, there was a big problem with overproduction along with under consumption, and bank failures. Under his New Deal, many of the laws he created ended these issues in no time. So with that being said no one could ever tell me that Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration to the problems of the Great Depression were not effective.
The first reason I believe President Roosevelt's administration to the Great Depression were effective is because in his first 100 days in office he laid down several laws showing time and ambition to get America out of it's depression. One of his first creations was the “Bank Holiday” which closed down banks and only kept the ones that were more stabilized. Having less banks helped the people regain trust in banks since only a few months prior, were failing which was a contribution to the Depression. During his first 100 days he passed many laws to help the people of all sorts of stages in the Depression. Establishing a minimum wage law kept the people all at the same level.
Roosevelt created so many laws that had so many different acronyms people called them the “alphabet soup”. One of his laws that swept the...