I'm going out on a limb here and figuring that you're talking about a specific poster that rings a bell. Basically, it portrays the Germans as evil people, and inspires young British men to enlist in the army to fight them.
The federal government passed laws allowing people to sell back land they could not pay for and use the money to pay their debt. States made it more difficult to foreclose on mortgages and tried to make it easier for people to declare bankruptcy.
The appropriate response is Declaration of the Rights of Man - 1789. The point of all political affiliation is the safeguarding of the normal and imprescriptible privileges of man. These rights are freedom, property, security, and imperviousness to abuse. The standard of all sway lives basically in the country.