Franklin Delano Roosevelt was faced with the Great Depression and World War II. He guided America through the greatest foreign crisis and its greatest domestic crisis (with the exception of the Civil War). It was Roosevelt's deep compassion for the troubles of Americans that connected him to the general population and allowed him to redefine the American presidency with various political, administrative and constitutional powers.
· In 1922: FDR became governor of New York. When the stock market collapsed in 1929, FDR in New York implemented relief initiatives, which in turn foreshadowed his future strategy in fighting the Great Depression as President of the United States. He gave unemployment
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