The New Deal The Man Who Changed America

Elected in November 1932 as the economic crisis ravaged the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately put all his campaign promises into action it was time for the New Deal This bold plan designed to turn around a nation on the brink of collapse where unemployment was at an alltime high and the working poor were suffering from the precariousness of the job market was intended to give hope to a country that had been battered before anything else Once he came to power the new president from the Democratic Party immediately passed some fifteen laws designed to revive the economy