Franklin D. Roosevelt's mission during his presidency was to help reform society after the Great Depression with his New Deal. This plan called for a larger and more effective role for government, which caused much controversy among Americans. The New Deal was presented as the “three Rs”: relief, recovery and reform. Roosevelt's plan unfolded in two hundred-day periods. It started the first hundred days through unemployment and relief administrations. The next hundred days focused more on financial and social issues for the population. Roosevelt's first move toward recovery was to restore the nation's banks. He closed banks for four days and ordered the Emergency Banking Act to allow the government to carry out financial inspections in all banks. Congress passed other organizations such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1933 to assure Americans that their money would be safe, as well as the Federal Securities Act and the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1933 to confirm the security of citizens' actions . Roosevelt also adopted the Social Security system in 1935 to provide monthly payments to those who were unable to support themselves. (document E) Social Security had three types of eligibility: old age and survivors' pensions, where you had to be at least sixty-five years old, unemployment insurance where workers who lost their jobs were compensated, then unemployment insurance. unemployment assistance. dependent children, the blind and the disabled where you will receive government subsidies. This system proved to be very beneficial as it helped those who could not physically work to support themselves. Roosevelt's next move toward recovery was to strengthen the relief...... middle of paper...... New Deal. They accused Roosevelt of "limiting individual liberty in an unconstitutional and 'un-American' matter." An editorial in The New Republic titled “The New Deal in Review” explained how the New Deal completely changed the role of government. (Document H) It strengthened its executive, judicial and legislative powers and offered various beneficial agencies. As Document J shows, unemployment rates changed dramatically throughout the work of the New Deal. Unemployment was at its highest percentage in 1932, just before Roosevelt was elected and put his plan into action. In 1945, rates were lowered by almost 100%. Despite some opinions about Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, without his relief agencies and his concern for the people, we may never have overcome the Great Depression as we did. But above all, it brought back a feeling of hope.