Why Was Fdr Important

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president from March 1933 to April 1945, breaking the two term tradition not entirely set by George Washington back in the 1700’s which lead to the making of the 22nd amendment. He was brought into office when our american government was at its knees during the Great Depression and the waging of the second world war, but his sense of leadership by the way he responded to those events made FDR’s legacy a great one and making him an important american figure in our history. Franklin was chosen by americans in the election of 1932 because the thought that he was better suited for the fight against the depression since Herbert Hoover, the republican opponent, thought it was “a passing incident of our national lives” saying we shouldn’t really

With this he practically handed the presidential spot to FDR. Franklin gave his first inaugural speech in march he said “wage a war against the emergency” just as though “we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.” (web.History channel) comparing the great depression to a foreign attacker, and this being said after WWll is a big deal and tells the people that this is of great importance, therefore giving the american people a sense of hope they will be taken care of. He then gave his very first fireside chat saying that after the bank holiday he discourage hoarding and believes our “money is safer in a reopened bank than your mattress”. He also passed lots of bills and acts that helped us get out of the depression like: the bill that paid farmers to no longer work their fields to stop the surplus of food to raise prices to better profits, national industrial recovery act that allowed workers to form unions to ask for better wages and better working conditions, and the “new deal” which sort of helped by developing