Roosevelt's first and foremost concern was to end the banking crisis. Americans were uneasy with the banking industry and were rushing to withdraw funds, so that they would not lose them. On March 6th 1933 Roosevelt declared a "Bank Holiday" closing all banks in the country. On March 9th, 1933 Congress passed the Emergency Banking Act, which allowed only banks in secure financial condition to reopen. With in a few days, almost half of the Nation's Banks had reopened and they held 90 percent of the country's deposits, which helped to put an end to most of the panic regarding banks. There were also other programs to help secure banks such as The Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Truth-in-securities Act, and the Securities Exchange Commission. .
Roosevelt also had to do something to help the farmers. In May of 1933 the Agricultural Adjustment Act was put into place. The AAA's purpose was to help farmers by reducing the production of staple crops so that it would raise farm prices. Farmers were paid to limit their crop production with funds raised through a tax on processors of Farm products. While this did increase farm income, people believed it was wrong for farmers to produce less at a time when more was needed. In 1936, The Supreme Court declared the AAA as unconstitutional. Congress then adopted The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. In 1942, AAA was renamed Agricultural Adjustment Agency and was taken over by the Production and Marketing Administration in 1945.
One of the most important of all of the laws passed was the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 1933, which created the National Recovery Administration. The NIRA was an emergency measure with the purpose of encouraging industrial recovery and help to fight off widespread unemployment. The NRA was put into place to enforce well over 500 codes of fair practices for business and industry that were put into place.