Franklin D Roosevelt's Beliefs

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Franklin D. Roosevelt and The New Deal Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. The Roosevelt family was extremely well known for several generations for their fortune in real estate and trade. Franklin was an only child. His parents, James and Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt raised him at their estate, Springwood that was in the Hudson River Valley in New York State. He grew up with many privileges, including a private tutor who educated him until the age of 14. Growing up an only child with a wealthy lifestyle, Franklin was used to having most of the attention on him. Franklin’s childhood was very unlike the rest of the boys his age. Roosevelt spent his high school years at Groton School for Boys, a prestigious …show more content…
Franklin ended up getting engaged to his fifth cousin, Eleanor Roosevelt during his last year at Harvard and they were married on March 17, 1905. After studying law At Columbia University Law School, Franklin passed the Bar exam in 1907. Though he never received a degree, he practiced corporate law in New York for the next three years. Roosevelt found practicing Law uninteresting and restrictive so he set out to do greater …show more content…
First, Roosevelt set up the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which provided jobs to millions of unemployed Americans and stimulated the economy. Roosevelt also introduced the Social Security Act, which was designed to provide financial aid and security to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and many dependent mothers with children who could not hold down a job. Also the Social Security Act provided help for many senior citizens who lived in