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 ...

Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program ...

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 ...

For much of the 20th century, efforts to remake government were driven by a progressive desire to make the government work ...

Catholic social teaching was central in the formation of the New Deal, as the U.S. bishops' 1919 program for social ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1933 (UP) -- President-elect Roosevelt today appeared assured ... Provisions of emergency bank program WASHINGTON, March 6, 1933 (UP) -- Under provisions of the ...

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 ...