FIRST HUNDRED DAYS FDR PLUS

(The 73rd Congress had 311 Democrat, 117 Republican, and 5 Farmer-Labor representatives in the House and 59 Democratic and 36 Republican senators, plus one from the Farm-Labor Party.) Roosevelt knew he could rely on the support of other Democrats who made up the majority in both houses. Most of the changes came through legislation, not executive orders. Roosevelt couldn’t have done this on his own, and he knew it. If it seems impossible for a president to accomplish all this in 100 days, it is. provided training and direct relief to the unemployed.began the Public Works Administration to create jobs building schools, hospitals, airports, dams, and other public projects.created a controversial program that placed pricing controls on businesses in an effort to raise the cost of goods.started a program (the Tennessee Valley Authority) to provide electricity to impoverished rural Americans and raise their standard of living.launched the Civilian Conservation Corps, which eventually put 250,000 young men to work on conservation projects.created an agency that paid farmers not to raise crops, in order to raise the prices they got for their produce.introduced new regulation of the stock market (creating the forerunner of the Securities and Exchange Commission).established an insurance program for bank accounts (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation).banks that separated commercial banking from investment banking, and prohibited banks from using their assets in stock market speculations currency off the gold standard, effectively allowing the government to print and distribute money to the struggling banks Before Congress adjourned, the administration also The Act was only the beginning of Roosevelt’s initiatives over the first 100 days. When the banks reopened, Americans began re-depositing their savings. The Emergency Banking Act closed every bank in America for one week, enough time for the public panic to subside. Before 1933 ended, another 4,000 banks would close. Fourteen hundred banks had shut their doors in 1932. At the time, banks across America were failing at a fearful rate.

First hundred days fdr