American President Franklin Roosevelt broke with Herbert Hoover's policies <u>by actively participated in the nation's affairs to overcome the economic crisis through his New Deal programs.</u>
Soon after the American President Herbert Hoover took office in 1929, the U.S. stock market crashed and the Great Depression started in the U.S., severely affecting its economy and American families.
Hoover undertook few measures and programs to stimulate the economy, believing that too much federal intervention was a threat to capitalism and individualism and instead, he promoted that it was states and people themselves who had to provide relief to struggling people but this wasn't enough to the problem America was facing.
The following American President Franklin Roosevelt believed differently and decided to completely break with Herbert Hoover's policies by actively participated in the nation's affairs to overcome the economic crisis through his New Deal programs. These programs were a series of measures and projects that aimed to restore public confidence in the banking system, to provide relief to those most in need (the elderly, the poor), to employ millions of Americans, reform infrastructure, among others.
