How Did Franklin Roosevelt's Impact On America

In the early 1930s, America experience something that was very impactful to the United States history. America experience "The Great Depression". The Great Depression in the United States began on October 29, 1929 a day that will forever be known as "Black Tuesday," when stock market which had been thriving steadily upward for almost ten years suddenly decide to crash, plummeting the country into the most severe economic downfall the united states has seen so far. Investors lost a lot of their stocks; A lot of banks failed; the county's economic source was in a bad state, and a lot of companies went bankrupt and began to fire their workers. By 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression, at least one-fourth of the American workforce was out of work. A president of the name of Franklin Roosevelt, who was the 32nd American president who governed through the "Great Depression" and "World War II". His historical significance was he tried …show more content…
populace. The federal government became more involved in the citizens' well-being "On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address before 100,000 people on Washington's Capitol Plaza."….. "First of all," he said, "let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Leuchtenburg 2016) This has always been a favorite quote of mine, I felt like this was very encouraging to the citizens of America at this moment. Nothing was going to get better or change if we are having doubts and not moving forward was going to consciously mess up the economy. I could understand the condition that American was in, the stock market and business were at its worst. Even though, President Roosevelt and his cabinet tried their best effort to clean up the "mess" the Great Depression continued. the nation's economy remained