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In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President. He received 23 million votes while Hoover got fifteen million. When Roosevelt took office on March 4, 1933 he said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Roosevelt felt the government should have a say in how business is carried on. He wanted laws to control business and help the people. He called it social legislation. Others called it the New Deal. The first set of laws was to declare a Bank Holiday. Banks were closed for a short time to recover. Roosevelt went on the radio in what he called a Fireside Chat. He told people he had closed the banks to help them. He asked people to leave their money in the banks as long as possible. People listened to Roosevelt. The bank panic ended. Roosevelt had three goals for his New Deal. In first 100 days after Roosevelt was in office Congress passed many laws needed to get this done. They were: Not everything Roosevelt tried worked. The National Recovery Act (NRA) was passed in June of 1933. This was to help people by cutting down the number of hours a person could work, so more could be hired. The law set a minimum wage. The NRA tried to bring the prices of goods down. The NRA did not work because there was no way to set limits for production in every business. In 1935 the Supreme Court found the NRA unconstitutional. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) began in 1933 and 1935. The CCC offered outdoor work to unemployed men between the ages of 18 to 25. They planted trees, cleared brush, made reservoirs. They were given rooms, food, and a salary of $30 a month. The WPA was an agency they tried to put out-of-work people back to work. They built roads, schools, wrote books, painted pictures and worked in hospital and libraries.
 * 1) Help the people hurt by the Depression [[image:file:///Users/kerry.manion/Desktop/2_great_depression.jpg]][[image:file:///Users/kerry.manion/Desktop/2_great_depression.jpg]]
 * 2) Bring the U.S. out of the Depression
 * 3) Make changes for the better
 * 1) The government lent banks money.
 * 2) Money in banks was insured.
 * 3) The government helped the farmers by lending them money.
 * 4) The government controlled the prices of farm products.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was set up in 1933. The TVA built dams to supply electricity for water and to stop floods.

The Social Security Act was passed in 1935. This took care of the sick and the old. The Unemployment Insurance Act in 1935 made it possible for states to give money to the people who were out of work. By 1937 the U. S. Economy was almost back to where it had been. The Depression ended with the Second World War in 1939 - 1940.