The Social Reforms of Franklin D. Roosevelt “It is common sense to take a method and try it,” explained Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. “If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.” This adventurous attitude was characteristic of Roosevelt, who in his four terms as President, made boundless efforts to end the Depression of the 1930s, and to turn back the Axis Powers in World War II. Depression-stunned Americans first elected Roosevelt to office in 1932, …showed first 75 words of 1276 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1276 total…interstate commerce, and affected nearly 2 million workers. Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal committed the federal government to act forcefully to prevent future economic disasters through direct intervention in virtually every aspect of economic life-from agricultural prices to the workings of the stock exchange. The New Deal energized the labor movement, and so swelled the number of people in the Democratic Party that it remained the nation’s major political party for several decades.