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GCSE History · key term
Roosevelt’s first hundred days in office in spring 1933, marked by rapid legislation to tackle the Depression.
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Paper 1
Revise: The First New Deal and Alphabet AgenciesDuring the Hundred Days in spring 1933, Roosevelt pushed legislation rapidly through a sympathetic, Democrat-controlled Congress. Speed mattered because people needed immediate help and reassurance that the government could act.
Keep the chronology clear. Agencies established in 1933 continued working afterwards; their later achievements were not all completed during the Hundred Days.
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