With it comes a series of actions aimed at improving the worst of the crisis. Historian William E. Lektenburg (William E.
Five days later, on March 9, 1933, Congress held a special session, during which it approved the President's Banking Act in the House by unanimous vote and the Senate a nearly unanimous vote. Soon after, Roosevelt urged the Legislature to pass an unemployment benefit. By the end of this month, on March 31, Congress created a civilian protection group.
This is just the beginning of legislation and enforcement activities. On May 12 alone, Roosevelt signed the Federal Emergency Relief Act – a pioneer in the establishment of the Project Progress Administration – the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act. He signed the bill less than a week later on May 18, and signed the Tennessee Valley Authority on May 18, and regulated the quotation and sales of securities on May 27. On June 16, Roosevelt signed the law to regulate the banking system, as well as the National Industrial Recovery Act, Omnibus Business and Labor Relations with bills for public factories. What followed was that Congress quit the meeting after 100 days.
Lektenburg wrote that the Legislature:
It has been written into the land law and is one of the most extraordinary series of reforms in the country's history. It has been committed to an unprecedented government industry cooperation program in the country; promised to allocate huge sums to millions of staple food farmers; recognized responsibility for the welfare of millions of unemployed people; agreed to far-reaching experiments in regional planning; guaranteed billions of dollars to save homes and farms from foreclosure; carried out huge public works spending; guaranteed small bank deposits in the country; and established federal regulations on Wall Street for the first time.
Roosevelt continued: “Like an experienced field general, he has been directing the entire operation.” The president even used it on July 24, 1933 in his recovery plan to create the “100-day” wording and described it as “a period dedicated to the wheels that started a new deal.”
Roosevelt's first few months of crazy movement set a high level for all future presidents; none of them were. The Harry S. era of Roosevelt’s successor, Harry S., described the first 100 days of the Eisenhower administration as a “slow beginning.” After a major achievement of John F. Kennedy’s first 100 days, the young president made the occasion meaningless.
