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social reforms of fdr
Title: social reforms of fdr
Category: History
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social reforms of fdr
The Social Reforms of Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It is common sense to take a method and try it,” explained Franklin D.
Roosevelt in 1933. “If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.” This
adventurous attitude was characteristic of Roosevelt, who in his four terms as
President, made boundless efforts to end the Depression of the 1930s, and to
turn back the Axis Powers in World War II.
Depression-stunned Americans first elected Roosevelt to office in 1932,
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…showed last 75 words of 1324 total…interstate commerce, and affected nearly 2 million workers.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal committed the federal government
to act forcefully to prevent future economic disasters through direct
intervention in virtually every aspect of economic life-from agricultural
prices to the workings of the stock exchange. The New Deal energized the
labor movement, and so swelled the number of people in the Democratic Party
that it remained the nation’s major political party for several decades.
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