The stock market crash of 1929 helped launch the United States into the worst economic depression in history. The severity of the Great Depression called for an immediate way to recover what was lost and some relief to the victims. Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for president in 1932, in his inauguration he stated , “ I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people”(5). Little did he know, his plan was one of the hallmarks of economic and social reforms in history. Roosevelt was that man to pull America through the Depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York on January 30, 1882. His parents and private tutors provided him with almost all his formative education. He received a BA degree in history from Harvard in only three years (1900-03). Roosevelt next studied law at New York's Columbia University. In 1907, he left school without taking a degree. For the next three years he practiced law with a prominent New York City......
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