"Having won a victory in the United States presidential election of 1932, and with his party having decisively swept Congressional elections across the nation, Roosevelt entered office with enormous political capital. Americans of all political persuasions were demanding immediate action, and Roosevelt responded with a remarkable series of new programs in the “first hundred days” of the administration, in which he met with Congress for 100 days. During those 100 days of lawmaking, Congress granted every request Roosevelt asked, and passed a few programs (such as the FDIC to insure bank accounts) that he opposed."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal#The_First_Hundred_Days* The Emergency Banking Act to reopen sound banks under Treasury supervision, with federal loans if needed...
* The Glass-Steagall Act
* Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
* The nation went off the gold standard.
* The Economy Act, to balance the "regular" federal budget by cutting the salaries of government employees and cutting pensions to veterans by fifteen percent.
* The Agricultural Adjustment Act to raise farm incomes by raising the prices farmers received by reducing total farm output.
* The Farm Credit Act
* The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act
* The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)...brought together leaders in each industry to design specific sets of codes for that industry; the most important provisions were anti-deflationary floors below which no company would lower prices or wages, and agreements on maintaining employment and production. In a remarkably short time, the NRA announced agreements from almost every major industry in the nation.
* The Public Works Administration: "Between July 1933 and March 1939, the PWA funded the construction of more than 34,000 projects, including airports, electricity-generating dams, and aircraft carriers; and seventy percent of the new schools and one third of the hospitals built during that time. It also electrified the Pennsylvania Railroad between New York and Washington, D.C. Its one big failure was in quality, affordable housing, building only 25,000 units in four and a half years."
* The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), $500 million appropriated to help states establish their own relief projects. It also established:
-The Civil Works Administration, to create temporary jobs for millions of unemployed.
-The Civilian Conservation Corps, which provided work for 250,000 young men 18-25. Almost immediately, CCC work camps began to appear.
* the Tennessee Valley Authority, dam construction to curb flooding, generate electricity, and modernize the very poor farms in the Tennessee Valley.
* Repeal of Prohibition
* Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration to promote land reform and helped small farms, promote cooperatives, crop diversification, & local industry.
* The Railroad Coordination Act
* Home Owners Loan Act (dealt with foreclosure problems)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/volpe/newdeal/hundred_days.html. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Acthttp://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14665. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Works_Administrationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Emergency_Relief_Administrationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Works_Administration
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