Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Most Important In American History

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There are three things that I have learned about in American History that I believe had a huge impact on making America what it is today. I am going to tell you all about it in the next four paragraphs. First, the “Great Depression” began in year 1929. The Great Depression was probably the longest ten years for pretty much everybody. Especially the wealthy. Banks were failing/ closing left and right, no one had any money left, and millions of people were losing their jobs due to the Stock Market crash. But, things got better as years went on and we gained a new president who had some changes to make. Franklin D. Roosevelt became president to change things from worse to better. The first thing he did when he took office, was gather a bunch