Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt were the two presidents amid one of the most troublesome time in US history, the Great Depression. Both of these presidents greatly contributed to the nation by utilizing distinctive policies and strategies to try and facilitate the hardships that numerous Americans were confronting. The different actions that each took to lessen the harm being caused by the depression characterized them as either a liberal or conservative. These characterizations as liberal or conservative have changed over time. Free markets, limited government, and federalism were ideas that were disparaged all through the vast majority of nations up until recent history. Consequently, due to the fact that the Great Depression immediately reshaped America's perspective of …show more content…
Roosevelt anticipated on bettering the economy through experimentation with various new programs. The Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act constrained commercial bank security actions and affiliations between commercial banks and security firms. Another liberal move Roosevelt made was his Court-packing plan that was to expand the Supreme Court. Roosevelt additionally made the National Works Administration, making work laws that recognized unions and setting up Social Security which conservatives were against. With all of the acts and programs enforced by Roosevelt, he can easily be defined as a liberal. Roosevelt made small adjustments to capitalism, so that it functions for the rest of society rather than as a destructive force that benefited few, and in the long run would have benefited no one, if left to its own devices. He put a significant amount of the government's money into programs to improve unemployment, and control the economy to help get America recovered. Amid his numerous years as president, government consumptions and total debt relatively