HIST 2057 Chapter : History 2057 Textbook Chapter 28
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Upon arriving in the white house in 1933, franklin roosevelt inherited an anxious nation in the third year of an unprecedented depression. The democrats elected franklin d. roosevelt, who won the election. Roosevelt faced three challenges: reviving the economy, relieving the widespread human misery, and rescuing the farm sector and its desperate families. Roosevelt"s advisors offered him many different methods of reviving the economy; he was willing to try elements of each approach without committing to one in particular. Roosevelt"s new deal would take the form of a series of trial-and-error actions, some of which were misguided failures. Roosevelt and his advisers initially settled on a three-pronged strategy. First, they sought to remedy the banking crisis and to provide short-term emergency relief for the jobless. Second, they tried to promote industrial recovery by increasing federal spending and by facilitating cooperative agreements between management and organized labor.
