The Great Depression was a time period of hunger, sorrow, and death. It began with the Stock Market Crash of 1929 when President Herbert Hoover as president. Hoover was elected after campaigning and promising prosperity. However, he failed to deliver to the people what he had promised. He tried to keep the country from falling into the Depression by keeping the government separate from the economy which only helped the country fall into the Depression in the first place. When Hoover’s term was up, the people elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) as the thirty-second president of the United States. Roosevelt, similarly to Hoover, spread an image and vision of hope for the people. However, unlike the former president Hoover, Roosevelt delivered to the people what they needed and what he had promised. When he was placed in office, Roosevelt spent one hundred days in Congress making and passing bills. One of these bills was called the First New Deal which would eventually be followed by the Second New Deal. Both New Deals were passed in an attempt to counteract the effects of the Great Depression by creating new government programs that created new jobs and cared for those suffering from the great Depression by giving them food, all while reforming the economy. All sources used to find evidence and support the thesis are as unbiased as possible.
