President Roosevelt's New Deal

The Great Depression was an economic and social blow to the American people, people were out of job, food, money and homes while society turned everyone against each other it was everyman for himself. President Franklin D. Roosevelt new deals were effect in providing jobs to the men of the families starting from the oldest to the youngest men in the family. The New Deal improved both the economic and social lives of the American people.

The CCC under his New Deal program, prompted the young males of America the chance to work and bring in money for their graving families, who were suffering during the Depression. They were working outside all the time, so it would better their overall physical appearance, but also their mental health too. FDR used the CCC to get the young men of America to become manlier. This ties to Teddy Roosevelt’s propaganda about America needing to show off their manliness to the rest of the world. The CCC brought forth a rejuvenation of the all-around health of the participants of the camps. The outdoor work that the workers were put through help transform their figures. As the Secretary of Labor, she played a role in the conditions of the workers the New Deal programs.

FDR was to many people of that time a proactive, assertive, and brilliant president. He assembled a group of intelligent people to help create and implement changes in America known as the Brain Trust. (Shultz, 2014). Furthermore, in 1933 he established organizations, committees, safety nets in an attempt to prevent a depression ever occurring again. Moreover, the New Deal was developed and implemented, it expanded government control.

Prompt: Even though people consider him one of the most powerful executives in US governmental history, FDR had to deal with the other branches of government just like other presidents. How did he disagree with Congress early on in the New Deal? How did he disagree with them late in the New Deal?

At the peak of the Great Depression in 1932 the unemployment rate stood at 25 percent and the Dow Jones Average sunk to a mere 34, indicating severe economic distress.1 Millions of individuals were starving on the streets and billions of dollars were lost in the stock market. When Franklin Roosevelt released the New Deal in 1933, a plan to provide relief, reform, and recovery to the distressed country, Americans were in dire need of relief. Recognizing that something had to be done quickly, President FDR implemented a series of programs to immediately mitigate the effects of the Depression. By focusing on programs to aid business and labor, farmers, housing and homeowners, banks and the stock market, and the youth of America, FDR attempted to provide the immediate relief from the Great Depression that America so desperately needed. Although some of the programs in the New Deal were more successful than others, they succeeded as a whole in providing the short-term relief that America needed to survive the Great Depression.

The 1930s, a time of great racial tension and segregation, is historically remembered for the Great Depression and President Roosevelt’s New Deal. Slavery had ended and the Ku Klux Klan started to become less popular; the struggle for African Americans, however, was not over. Racial segregation continued to thrive with half of African Americans out of work, their jobs given to whites who were struggling from the Great Depression (“Race During the Great Depression”). The New Deal, created to promote equality and produce jobs, was largely ineffective on the front of desegregation, doing little to help the black American community. One place that African Americans were able to prosper: jazz. However, even the jazz community itself was segregated. Racial prejudice came from both fronts: whites did “not want to mix socially with Negroes,” and black people believed that “when a Negro enters a White band, he loses his identity as a Negro musician” (“DownBeat Dodges the Racial Issue”). Benny Goodman, however, broke this barrier, initially in 1935 with the first interracial jazz performance, and again in his 1938 Carnegie Hall concert featuring black musicians.

For over 100 years the south was a democratic region, now in today’s society the south is seen as solidly Republican. The views of the parties may have changed but the views of the people did not. The Southern Democrats were the popular party and had many conservative views, many of which southern whites still believe today. This paper will describe the change from the solidly democratic region to a solidly republican region.

The 1930s, historically remembered for the Great Depression and President Roosevelt’s New Deal, demonstrated a time of great racial tension and segregation in America. Slavery dissolved and the Ku Klux Klan became less popular; the struggle of African Americans, however, was not over. Racial segregation thrived with half of African Americans out of work, their jobs transfered to whites who were struggling from the Great Depression (“Race During the Great Depression”). The New Deal, created to promote equality and produce jobs, proved largely ineffective on the front of desegregation, doing little to help the black American community. One place that African Americans were able to prosper: jazz. However, even the jazz community itself remained segregated. Racial prejudice came from both fronts: whites did “not want to mix socially with Negroes,” and blacks believed that “when a Negro enters a White band, he loses his identity as a Negro musician” (“DownBeat Dodges the Racial Issue”). Benny Goodman, however, broke this barrier, initially in 1935 with the first interracial jazz performance, and again in his 1938 Carnegie Hall concert featuring black musicians.

In the 1930’s the worst economic crash to hit the United States, and which was later called the Great Depression. All throughout the 1920’s under the Hoover administration there was a tremendous growth of the stock market; which in turn made people believe that it would never fall and people were making a tremendous amount of money. Banks were allowing people to buy stocks on speculation, credit, and on October 29th 1929, also known as “Black Tuesday”, was when the stock market fell through and the public fell intof mass hysteria. FDR won the 1932 election, and his first New Deal programs began to be signed into law in March of the next year. FDR’s New Deal programs helped lessen the financial and physical burden

Most people today can not imagine living a life where they possess no clue where their next meal will come from. For the families during the Great Depression, it was not their imagination, it was the reality. They lived daily, not knowing if they will receive enough money for food this meal let alone the next day. They eliminated any unnecessary utilities from their life to survive and many others were not able to keep possession of their houses. Then finally a new president came into power with the mentality to fix the depression with the New Deal. The New Deal helped recover the devastating impact of the Great Depression on the economy.

In 1933 the world was a much different place than it is today. The United States was a very industrial country, in the north and Midwest, the west was still being developed, and the south had not fully recovered from the civil war. In 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was starting his first of four terms in the White House. Those four terms would see him lead America through the Great Depression, through a somewhat prosperous time and into a war that claimed 60 million lives, or 3 percent of the total world population (By The Numbers: World Wide Deaths). Roosevelt would die in office in April of 1945 (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), just months before World War II would

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The New Deal was a series of programs and policies made by President Franklin Delano

Out of the smoldering rubble of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his New Deal emerged as beacons to guide America back to its splendor. The New Deal and its policies did rekindle American economy, but at a deep cost to American free enterprise. New Deal policies expanded government control over various industries and introduced programs to make society equal. The New Deal exposed America to notions of communism and chipped away at the private enterprise upon which the United States was built.