Term Papers on The Presidency Of FDR

Term Paper Title	The Presidency Of FDR
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The Presidency of FDR

Americans realized that they had an increasingly

great financial problem on their hands, and tried to correct it by

centralizing power. The President acquired so much power that the

nation almost became a communism, especially with Roosevelt's

introduction of the New Deal.

When Franklin Roosevelt became President of the United States

in 1933, the nation was in the depths of the worst depression it had

ever experienced. President Roosevelt, a very energetic and

enthusiastic person, inspired the people with his own confidence and

faith in the future. He gathered a group of people sharing his views

to help him, and provided food, clothing, and shelter for millions of

unemployed and poverty-stricken Americans. This was part of what he

called the New Deal, of which his three objectives were relief,

recovery, and reform for American citizens. In another attempt at

recovery, Congress attempted to revive the nation's agriculture and

industry and place the economy on a solid foundation. They printed

extra money to loan to industries that quickly paid it back. By 1933

nearly 14 million Americans were jobless. In response, the Roosevelt

administration immediately launched what seemed at the time to be a

wonderful program of direct relief. In 2 years, federal agencies

distributed 3 billion dollars to the states. However, the people

unemployed wanted jobs, not welfare, thus the Works Progress

Administration (WPA) came into existence. This helped restore some of

the lost jobs.

By 1936, the New Deal program faced a large and growing body

of opposition, some from within the Democratic Party itself. Many

critics felt that the government was interfering too much with the

free enterprise system, and in...

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