art in the first 100 days of FDR’s administration. There were many legislative acts passed by Congress in order to allow for a quick recovery for the nation. The two best examples of recovery in the first 100 days would be the Emergency Banking Relief Act, which allowed the president to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks, and the National Industrial Recovery Act. The National Industrial Recovery Act, which created the National Recovery Administration (NRA), designed to assist industry, labor, and the unemployed, and the Public Works Administration (PWA), intended for industrial recovery, as well as unemployment relief.Roosevelt’s one long term goal, reform, also had its spot on the 100 days Congress list. Although it was a long - term goal, in order to get the proper effects of it in the future, work needed to begin on it immediately. For the reform category of the New Deal, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, and the Glass - Steagall Banking Reform Act were very important at the time. The TVA was fixed on finding out exactly how much the production and distribution of electricity cost so that a “yardstick” could be set up to test the fairness of rates charged by private companies. In the end, the TVA brought about full employment cheap electric power, low - cost housing, abundant cheap nitrates, and many other amenities only once dreamed of in the impoverished area in which it was located. The Glass - Steagall Banking Reform Act provided for the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation (FDIC) which insured individual deposits up to $5,000, and helped put an end to the epidemic of bank failures in the United States and abroad. After Roosevelt had the early part of the New Deal underway with the 100 days Congress, he moved on into the future, expanding his goals in order to reach beyond the Great Depression, and in order to prevent another depression from every hap...
