Answer:
To counter bank runs the federal government declared a bank holiday
Step-by-step explanation:
A bank run is a situation whereby a very large if not all bank customers make a huge withdrawals of there funds deposited in a bank with the fear of the Bank failing in the the near future, this makes banks to liquidate loans and eventually failing.
during the great depression a lot of customers lost faith in the banking system and decided to make withdrawals of their monies left in the bank and this lead to a lot of bank selling off there assets and liquidating loans to come up with the funds to payoff customers.
After the victory of Roosevelt in the presidential election in march 1933 Roosevelt declared a bank Holiday almost immediately after taking over office, to help reduce the bank runs and after which he addressed the nation on the need to stop the bank runs and this helped counter the bank runs.