Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Hundred Days | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

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Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Hundred Days | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Learn how President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s policy response to the Great Depression, known as the New Deal, transformed the government’s relationship to the economy in this video adapted from FDR | American Experience. Through archival photos, newsreel footage, and interviews, students learn about the severe problems that Americans faced because of the Great Depression and how President Roosevelt, in an unprecedented approach, used the power of the federal government to launch programs supporting farming, banking, labor, housing, and public welfare.

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PBS Learning Media