After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

Roosevelt’s impatience with precedent led to his major political misstep, the “Court Packing” bill of 1937. Angered by the Supreme Court over rulings limiting his New Deal programs, he proposed ...

Major Acts Roosevelt’s creation of multiple new governmental agencies within his New Deal program was unprecedented and set the stage for later presidents to take on added responsibilities and work ...

President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins ...

Roosevelt was proactive in dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. He came up with a new set of policies known as the New Deal. close New DealThe name of the policies put in place from ...

In 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected overwhelmingly ... While they did not end the Depression, the New Deal’s experimental programs helped the American people immeasurably by taking ...

Franklin D Roosevelt won the 1932 election and became president at the beginning of 1933. He had promised America a New Deal to fix the problems of the Great Depression. There has been a lot of ...