First 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency

[1][2] He immediately summoned the United States Congress into a three-month (nearly 100-day) special session, during which he presented and was able to rapidly get passed a series of 15 major bills designed to counter the effects of the Great Depression.

[1] With President Roosevelt's urging, Congress passed 77 laws during his first 100 days as well, many directed towards reviving the economy of the United States through various public works projects.

"[1][3] Looking back, he began, "we all wanted the opportunity of a little quiet thought to examine and assimilate in a mental picture the crowding events of the hundred days which had been devoted to the starting of the wheels of the New Deal.

"[4] Since then, the first 100 days of a presidential term has taken on symbolic significance, and the period is considered a benchmark to measure the early success of a president.

Franklin D. Roosevelt spent the first week of his presidency dealing with a month-long series of bank closures that were ruining families nationwide.

ET that Sunday night, on the eve of the end of the bank holiday, Roosevelt spoke to a radio audience of more than 60 million people, to tell them in clear language "what has been done in the last few days, why it was done, and what the next steps are going to be.

Within two weeks people returned more than half of the cash they had been hoarding, and the first stock-trading day after the bank holiday marked the largest-ever one-day percentage price increase.

[8] The fifteen landmark pieces of legislation passed by Congress during the Hundred Days are:[1][9] On March 9, 1933, Roosevelt ordered some of his senior staff to put unemployed men to work on conservation projects by summertime.

It was soon passed into law on March 31, giving the President authority to establish the Emergency Conservation Work (ECW) program.

[10] In May 1933, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration was created in order to raise crop prices in response to the rural economic crisis.

Long, positioning for his own prospective presidential run, had pushed expansive social programs and infrastructure investments in his state, and wanted to see FDR follow suit on a national level.