President Roosevelt and New Deal

One of the amazing things about President Roosevelt was that he used cartoon as a way of informing the citizens of the United States that the Great Depression is just fear that can be stopped by believing in the positive. One of his famous quote is First of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself from his inaugural speech on March 4, 1933.

Within the first 100 days of his presidency, President Roosevelt acted swiftly and declared a four-day bank holiday to prevent people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks. Then the president urged Americans to put their savings back in the banks, and by the end of the month almost three quarters of them had reopened.

Afterwards, he made a decision to end the Prohibition. In May, he signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act into law, enabling the federal government to build dams along the Tennessee River that controlled flooding and generated inexpensive hydroelectric power for the people in the region. And within the same month, President Roosevelt paid farmers to leave their fields to boost prices and end agricultural surplus. Not only did the President fulfilled his promise to the country, but he has been passed down as a legendary figure in our history book as he have saved us from falling further down the path of self destruction.

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