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How Did Franklin D Roosevelt's Inaugural Address During The Great Depression

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt made mention during his speech how the depression had reached its depth. Taxes had increases and incomes decreased. Farmers also had no markets for their produce and families that had saved all their money had now lost it. Unemployment was also high at this time. Roosevelt states in his inaugural speech, “Our greatest primary task is to put people to work” (Inaugural Address, 1933). In his first 100 days in office he enacted 15 major bills and one of them was related to the soaring unemployment. He established the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) to provide relief to millions of unemployed people. This program provided federal funds for state relief programs. During this time he also established
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