The First Hundred Days ‘The First Hundred Days’ refers to the first couple of months that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in office. After the stock market crash of 1929, the U.S. was in an economic and agricultural crisis and had to deal with an overproduction and underconsumption of goods. The president at the time, Herbert Hoover, had a Laissez Faire approach when it came to running the country. The country needs someone to get involved and bring the country out of the depression. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 to James Roosevelt and Sara Ann Deleno. He grew up playing a range of sports. Franklin went to Groton School where he met Endicott Peabody, who encouraged him and the other students to enter into public service. …show more content…
Many thought that this was too radical or progressive and that it was going too fast. Monetarism and Gold Standard The definition of monetarism: the theory or practice of controlling the supply of money as the main method of stabilizing the economy. The common view during the Great Depression was that fiscal policy (government spending and taxation) was the primary tool for managing the economic drop. Monetarists criticize the Federal Reserve for its contractionary monetary policies during the early years of the depression. This is what they believe to contribute to the decline of the money supply. Monetarists advocated for the more predictable and rule-based approach to monetary policy, with a focus on controlling the growth of the money supply to get stable prices. The gold standard was a monetary system in which the value of a country's currency was tied to a specific quantity of gold. Created stability in exchange rates between different countries, as the value of each currency was linked to a specific quantity of gold. Central …show more content…
It was passed by the 73rd US Congress to install fair wages, hours, and regulate prices that would stimulate the economy. Employees were given the right to organize unions. Over 500 codes were instituted in various industries. The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was formed on June 16, 1933. It made the codes for the industries to adopt. Set a minimum wage and maximum weekly hours. Over 500 codes were instituted in various industries. The NRA didn’t last long enough to see all the codes enacted. In 1935 the NRA was declared to be unconstitutional under the separation of powers. It was turned into the Wagner Act and that was deemed constitutional. Schecter VS. the U.S. The Schecter case against the country started May 27, 1935. The Supreme Court of the United States abolished the NIRA. In an unanimous vote, the court decided that Congress had exceeded its authority by delegating too much legislative power to the president and industrial groups. It also found that NIRA’s “codes of fair practice” went beyond the regulation of interstate commerce in attempting to control intrastate activity. NIRA’s successor, the National Labor Relations Act (1935), was acceptable to the