Chapter 23 Section 5 Critical Thinking #4

4. How successful do you think Franklin Roosevelt was as a president?

I think that FDR was a successful president. Not everything that he did succeeded, but he really tried very hard to do everything that could work, and he put the country on the path to getting itself out of the Depression. His policies covered a wide range of issues: the economy, workers rights, banking and finance, and the environment. Many of his New Deal measures still exist today, such as Social Security, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the National Labor Relations Board (created under the Wagner Act). Today these help keep the nation reassured that there will not be another great depression. The conditions of living for million of Americans were improved by FDR's New Deal programs, and it gave them hope that life in America might not be so miserable in the future, which was key to getting the nation back to normal.