Why Is President Franklin D Roosevelt Important

America’s 32nd president, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was the best president of all time in my opinion. He took over the country during a time of crisis, and made thoughtful and smart decisions that helped guide the country out of the Great Depression.
Roosevelt was born in a private estate located near Hyde Park, New York. Born to wealthy parents, he received an outstanding education thanks to private tutors as well as highly elite schools such as Harvard and Groton. He attended Columbia University for law school and eventually began working as a clerk for a Wall Street law firm. In 1910, he won a seat in the senate, which jump-started his political career that would eventually lead him to the white house.
Roosevelt was president during
With the first phase of the New Deal, a series of programs and policies immediately implemented to help the country recover from the depression, he and his administration began to crack down on ways to achieve economic recovery from the depression, and provide aid and jobs to Americans who needed them. He also held regular radio broadcast addresses to the American people, which I think is important because communication between the government and its people tends to cause citizens to instill more faith and trust in their government. Especially in times like that, I think that the broadcasts were helpful in restoring the public’s confidence and giving them hope. Roosevelt also instituted the Agricultural Adjustment Administration which I think is important because it reduced export surpluses and raised the value of crops, and was a small but important step to fighting the depression. Besides the AAA, he instituted the Public Works Association (which helped to battle unemployment as it generated more jobs), and the Tennessee Valley Authority, which addressed issues in the Tennessee Valley, an area that had been hit hard by the
Due to the Dust Bowl, it wasn’t uncommon for millions of people to leave their mid-western states and migrate from the plains to other regions. These migrants were typically unwelcomed to begin a new life in the places they attempted to settle. An example of this would be Los Angeles’ “Bum Blockade”, which was set up at railroad junctions in an attempt to keep out migrants. In response to this, the Roosevelt administration took measures to solve the problem of migrants and rural poor with the Resettlement Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, and Farm Security Administration. The administration also focused on uncovering the sources of the environmental degradation in the first place. In order to preserve natural resources, the Soil Erosion Service was brought to fruition. This program was the first of its kind, and was also the first major federal commitment to the preservation of natural resources. As if this program isn’t already good enough, the U.S Forestry Service worked in collaboration with the Civilian Conservation Corps and local farmers to plant nearly 220 million trees. With the planting of the trees, the landscape of America was not only changed visually, but it also successfully caused the frequency dust storms to decline