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During these, FDR would address the nation personally via radio to inform and comfort Americans, and millions would listen each time
Fireside Chats
Roosevelt’s economic plan for immediate relief and reforms in the American economy. This led to a series of laws and programs to be created, as well as vastly increasing the power and influence of the federal government
The New Deal
Squatter “towns” built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s. Named to mock the president in the early 1930s
Hoovervilles
This Act established a permanent national old-age pension (monthly payment) system, which was later extended to include dependents, the disabled, and other groups.
Social Security Act of 1935
. This was a group of African Americans who served as public policy advisors to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (unofficially)
Black Cabinet
This government agency put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work building schools, hospitals, roads and other public works
Works Progress Administration (WPA)