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[CAPTIONS PROVIDED BY IAN LOVE]
>>ASHLEY: That class is so hard.
>>ABI: I wish we didn't have to do those tests.
>>DEREK: I always fail them.
>>DANIEL: His notecards SUCK.
>>VATSAL: Wait.
What if there was a better way...
[MUSIC BEGINS]
...the country's in depression
and you know it baby,
I can sign whatever you need
...economy's in shambles
and you know it so
I can sign whatever you need
Way back in '29,
market's in a great decline
Hoover was in office, and he said,
"This problem isn't mine!"
Rather it's because of other countries' debts,
But the trickle-down, it'll ease our frets
Well, in comes Franklin
We're all thinkin'
What's he gonna do to get us all money-makin'?
We call it Three Rs
RELIEF, RECOVERY, and REFORM
Wrap it up...
...these are two of many acts that I signed
just to get us out of this mess
Not to mention, the _________
meaning if your employer wasn't treatin' you good
or givin' you pay
You could form a union today
From '33 to '35's when most of these got ratified
I had to save the country just from simply fallin' out the sky
So in this period called the "Hundred Days"
The only thing we had to fear was fear itself
And if you ain't really had any money in yo' pocket
FDR had some plans you could use to stock it
gettin' dough into your hand was its highest perk
America needed immediate relief
So Congress went and gave the Commander-in-Chief
Almost anything he wanted, like a blank check
To put into action any act across his desk
So there went Franklin
and he went makin'
all kinds of acts and laws to get us money makin'
He thought it
They sought it
Some fought it
But we got it
And America was back on its way
FHA, HOLC
These are acts that I passed to help out the housing scene
to help out the housing scene
Recovery is almost in sight
and mostly because of all the acts that I had signed
All the acts that I had signed
Alphabet Soup, some called it
but for the best, it helped us with
RECOVERY, then REFORM
we were on our way to (how) it was before
We needed the New Deal
and FDR, he was real,
real proactive about how we were to go
about this!
So in essence, you have seen
just how Roosevelt's New Deal
revived our economy
Out of depression, we came soon
and steadily climbed back up until we entered WW II
thanks to Roosevelt Number Two