Being born into a very wealthy family Roosevelt would never of know what it was like for ordinary to survive in poverty but Roosevelt tried his hardest to make lives better for Americans during the great depression.
The American people wanted the good days of he boom back, lots of people had lost all of their savings and the banks were all going bankrupt, even one of the biggest banks in America, the Bank of the United States went bankrupt. People felt the only safe option was to take out their money. The Americans had lost confidence in the banks and Roosevelt had to do something to make the American people confident in their banks.
To regain the confidence in the banks he ordered them to close until government officials had checked them over.
Roosevelt may not of experienced poverty but he knew what do about it, The Federal Emergency Administration was set up to protect the needs of the poor, $500 million dollars was spent on soup kitchens, blankets, employment schemes and nursery schools. The people were starting to believe that maybe the depression was starting ease its strangle hold on the U.S economy.
One of the harshly hit communities were the farmer’s they were force from their homes in the depression as they couldn’t pay their mortgages and they couldn’t sell their crop aboard thanks to the tariffs put up around the globe.
In 1921 Roosevelt was stricken down with polio and was paralysed but did eventually have partial use of his legs back, this almost certainly changed his outlook on life. He would of got some idea of what it was like to not have something, for Roosevelt it was his not having full use of his legs for other Americans it was money which Roosevelt had a lot of.
Having so much money and being in the top 5% of the wealthiest people of America Roosevelt would never of really understood the needs and the fears of the public. The people wanted reassuring that another crash wouldn’t take place. Roosevelt was so wealthy he wouldn’t have been affected by the Wall Street as much as others were. Money was never a problem for Roosevelt but for the poor it was a major problem, the public wanted jobs to be able to make their own money and to be able to have all the new inventions such as, radio, washing machines, hoovers and cars. The 1920’s were very prosperous and the public wanted whose days back. Roosevelt would always be able to afford those luxury items and wouldn’t know what it felt like to have those taken off you because you couldn’t keep up the repayments.
Roosevelt did work hard to get to the presidency and it took him many years of hard work to get his degrees and become a lawyer. Roosevelt would of know what hard work was he wasn’t handed everything on a plate, he had to work hard to get everything he achieved, like most American he worked hard to get where he got and he would known who it would feel to lose everything he worked for. Which happened to most Americans in the great depression.
