Forcing the confederacy to surrender to escape total destruction
It prevented slaves from learning how to read and write. It also made it scary for them to escape because they allowed slave owners to whip them or hang them for trying to escape or committing small or big crimes.
William D. "Big Bill" Haywood is the most notable founder
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was in office came into the presidency in 1933, when the United States (and much of the world) was mired in the Great Depression. The "unprecedented task" was to find a way out of that horrible time of economic collapse. The task he proposed, requiring "undelayed action," was the implementation of his New Deal programs to spur economic recovery. I won't go into what all the elements of the New Deal were -- you can look that up quite easily on your own!
