Which of these passages from FDR's first inaugural address best reflects his overall purpose? A. More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return.
B. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.
C. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money.
D. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

B. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.

Explanation:

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt took over as President, the country was in the grip of the Great Depression. An unprecedented number of Americans were unemployed and could not afford their living expenses.

Up till then it was a general belief in the United States that the government should not be involved in the economy but Roosevelt came with a new idea. He believed that the government should involve itself as this was the only way to restore balance and so he initiated a slew of agencies and projects aimed at employing Americans in their numbers.