History Question: How much time was there between FDR taking office and the New Deal?

It's many things.

It essentially began immediately, but then he had a willing Congress to help him along with that.

Throughout his first two terms of office, though, he instituted many programs and reforms, some of which worked well, some of which were miserable failures.

because alot of his programs were declared unconstitutional.

That is what everyone expects from Obama


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takes longer then 20 seconds to heat up their food.

You tap your feet not tape em unless your into that kind of stuff editing

On the other hand Social Security came in 1935, as the Fair Labor Standards Act didn't come until 1938.

Act or Program, Acronym, Year Enacted, Significance

>Agricultural Adjustment Act AAA 1933 Protected farmers from price drops by providing crop subsidies to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion.

>Civil Works Administration CWA 1933 Provided public works jobs at $15/week to four million workers in 1934.

>Civilian Conservation Corps CCC 1933 Sent 250,000 young men to work camps to perform reforestation and conservation tasks. Removed surplus of workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys, provided money for families.

>Federal Emergency Relief Act FERA 1933 Distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers.

>Glass-Steagall Act FDIC 1933 Created federally insured bank deposits ($2500 per investor at first) to prevent bank failures.

>National Industrial Recovery Act NIRA 1933 Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers.

>National Youth Administration NYA 1935 Provided part-time employment to more than two million college and high school students.

>Public Works Administration PWA 1933 Received $3.3 billion appropriation from Congress for public works projects.

>Rural Electrification Administration REA 1935 Encouraged farmers to join cooperatives to bring electricity to farms. Despite its efforts, by 1940 only 40% of American farms were electrified.

>Securities and Exchange Commission SEC 1934 Regulated stock market and restricted margin buying.

>Social Security Act 1935 Response to critics (Dr. Townsend and Huey Long), it provided pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to blind, deaf, disabled, and dependent children.

>Tennessee Valley Authority TVA 1933 Federal government build series of dams to prevent flooding and sell electricity. First public competition with private power industries

>Wagner Act NLRB 1935 Allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union-busting tactics by management.

>Works Progress Administration WPA 1935 Employed 8.5 million workers in construction and other jobs, but more importantly provided work in arts, theater, and literary projects.


Source:

Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"

chart view at:

http://www.feldmeth.net/US/chart.newdeal.html

of banks and rich people. Today theres a small majority that view the rich as part of the problem, mainly to many believe in the hope that by supporting the rich they too will be rich some day.

means they will be taxed. i have family like that.

Without the war the depression would have lasted longer than it did. The war in Europe (1936) created jobs here because of Lend Lease.

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/history/2009/02/12/the-first-100-days-franklin-roosevelt-pioneered-the-100-day-concept.html

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The new president immediately established a new, infectious atmosphere of optimism. Even Sen. Hiram Johnson, a Republican from California, conceded, "The admirable trait in Roosevelt is that he has the guts to try.... He does it all with the rarest good nature.... We have exchanged for a frown in the White House a smile. Where there were hesitation and vacillation, weighing always the personal political consequences, feebleness, timidity, and duplicity, there are now courage and boldness and real action."

Roosevelt immediately called Congress into special session and kept it there for three months. He found that the Democrats who were in control were eager to do his bidding, and even some Republicans were cooperative. Raymond Moley, a member of FDR's inner circle, said many legislators "had forgotten to be Republicans or Democrats" as they worked together to relieve the crisis.

FDR quickly won congressional passage for a series of social, economic, and job-creating bills that greatly increased the authority of the federal government—the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, which supplied states and localities with federal money to help the jobless; the Civil Works Administration to create jobs during the first winter of his administration; and the Works Progress Administration, which replaced FERA, pumped money into circulation, and concentrated on longer-term projects. The Public Works Administration focused on creating jobs through heavy construction in such areas as water systems, power plants, and hospitals. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. protected bank accounts. The Civilian Conservation Corps provided jobs for unemployed young men. The Tennessee Valley Authority boosted regional development. Also approved were the Emergency Banking Act, the Farm Credit Act, and the National Industrial Recovery Act.

In all, Roosevelt got 15 major bills through Congress in his first 100 days. "Congress doesn't pass legislation anymore—they just wave at the bills as they go by," said humorist Will Rogers.

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He figures it's run by Dems so he can stay out of the way and let the process work.

Unfort. it doesn't work that way in this day and age. He needs to go in there as a leader and put Congress in their place for wasting so much time and money on stupid stuff.

Note Goldman Sharks seamless transition from Bush to Obama. Deja vue?

but within his first 100 days he did manage quite a bit: http://www.thenation.com/classroom/paks/pakFDRs_first_hundred_days.mhtml

Of course he was unable to secure the olympics for the US.

We can rest assured that that will not be allowed to happen again. That Kennedy boy slipped through and made some disturbing noises, but that was taken care of.

For instance, his child labor law was overturned by the US Supreme Court, and was finally adopted a few years later. That period allowed my aunt to get a factory job at age 13 to support her family.