Relief, Recovery, & Regulation - the New Deal

The government established short range goals that included relief and immediate recovery, especially in the first two years. They then set up long-range goals which included permanent recovery and reform of current abuses particuarly those that produced the boom-or-bust catastrophe (World Book, Vol.14, p.748). The Congress authorized the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in a daring attempt to simulate a nationwide comeback. This scheme was to perform immediate relief with long range recovery and reform. It was designed to assist industry, labor, and the

The Civilian Conservation Corps accomplishments included the restoration of resources, recreational opportunities, and the building of national state’s parks. The failures of this program were that Civilian Conservation Corps was that it gave money to a small segment of the population, it took taxpayers money ,and it was only for young white men. According to experts of the Digital History Online Textbook, many New Deal Programs discriminated against African Americans. The document said “Roosevelt feared that conservative southern Democrats, who had seniority in Congress and controlled many committee chairmanships, would block his bills if he tried to fight them on the race question.(Document B)” This is why the Civilian Conservation Corps is labeled as a success and a fail. It helps citizens but not many. The second New Deal program that had accomplishment and failures was the Tennessee Valley. The accomplishments that the Tennessee Valley made was it provided cheap electrical power to rural areas, and it provided employment in rural areas. The failures that this program had was that since they provided lots with electricity, they had to build a lot of dams, which is bad for the ecosystem. The Tennessee Valley also had many long term failures. The long-term effect is that it generates power through coal fire plants, which causes pollution that generates global

Once President Franklin Roosevelt was elected during the Great Depression, his first 100 days enacted what he called the New Deal. This “deal” was a series of reforms that were meant to increase available jobs, better the working conditions, and put money back into the economy. Jobs offered during this time, as well as the relief, recovery, and reform efforts gave a kick start to the American economy, helping to pull us out of the Great Depression. Some examples of these efforts can be seen in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the National Recovery Administration (NRA), and the Social Security Act (SSA).

The New Deal program was providing jobs and helping natural resources from another plan: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Established by congress a little over a week after the Fireside Chat was given, the TVA was to cover the environmental, economic and technological issues in the lower Appalachian area. The authority was also to start the delivery of low-cost electricity to most of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, western North Carolina, and southwest Virginia. FDR stated, “It should be charged with the broadest duty of planning for the proper use, conservation and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin and its adjoining territory for the

Another one of the New Deal's contradictory reforms was the National Industrial Recovery Act. The principle was to establish minimum wages and prices and general labor regulations. On one hand, it sought to keep wage rates high and give the consumer greater purchasing power. On the other hand, it established hundreds of legally sanctioned industry-wide cartels that were allowed to establish standard wages, hours of operation and minimum prices on their own terms. The minimum prices meant that businesses would be prevented from underselling each other. The artificially high wages also meant that unemployment would continue to rise. High prices for goods were not the right path to take since the United States economy was in the biggest depression it had ever seen. In 1935, the Supreme Court declared the NRA unconstitutional, on the grounds that the United States government had no right to regulate intrastate commerce, since it was a power usually granted to state governments. To replace parts of the NRA, Congress passed the National Labor Relations Board and

Grammar Result: Prior to The Great Depression, the United States was booming. Life was good for many. Companies were expanding nationwide, people were striking rich, and the stock markets were rising. Soon, the United States became the country where everyone wanted to be. Many immigrants were immigrating to the United States for opportunities.

President Roosevelt created the New Deal, which consisted of recovery, relief, and reform programs in order to combat the Great Depression. People called these programs, known as ABC agencies, by their abbreviations. In the illustration the politician states, “It is evolution, not revolution, gentlemen!” (Document C). This demonstrates that although Roosevelt’s New Deal was radical, numerous Americans thought there were too many agencies and it became extremely confusing to keep up with the immense number of them. Additionally, some of the programs were failures because they did not stimulate economic growth. As a result, the government terminated several of the agencies to reduce federal

Document D states “The New Deal, being both a philosophy and mode of action, began to find expression in diverse forms which were often contradictory. Some assisted and some retarded the recovery of industrial activity.” This quote shows how the New Deal, in fact, did aid the people in relief and reform but failed to recover. Programs such as Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), Civil Works Administration (CWA), and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) helped to relief by providing jobs to the unemployed in order to halt the economic deterioration of America. Programs such as Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) were permanent programs made to avoid another depression.

The National Recovery Administration was created by Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the New Deal policies. The National Recovery Administration increased the prices of manufactured goods. It hurt the farmers that needed to buy tools and equipment. As they did not have the money to buy the taxed equipment, they could not do their job. It was a detriment both the consumers and the companies. “New Deal spending was supposed to stimulate the economy, but New Deal taxing depressed the economy.”

Few Presidents have faced situations as troubled as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did when he was elected into office. The economy was in shambles and unemployment was skyrocketing. However, few Presidents have impacted the country as swiftly and effectively as FDR either. He set out to bring an end to the Great Depression, which had been created by fear itself. Undaunted, FDR and Congress, together, were able to pass a whopping 15 major bills in FDR’s first 100 days in office as a part of his New Deal. While each bill was important and extremely impactful in its own respect, the CCC, TVA, and FDIC are, when reflected upon today, considered to be the most successful programs created under these bills.

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said after winning his party’s nomination in 1932 ("A New Deal for Americans"). The 1930s was a time of great economic depression; in response the New Deal was FDR’s plan for America’s recovery. By 1933, when FDR took office, one in four Americans was unemployed. Furthermore, there was widespread hunger, malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor health. The New Deal was made to combat these tragic conditions and it did so through the means of welfare and government intervention. Indeed, the New Deal was a radical change to the way America had

The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was one of the many administrations that were initiated during the New Deal. This administration was established to help create jobs, increase consumer buying power, and to help create minimum wage. The NRA created a “blanket code” that would make companies have a minimum wage and maximum work hours and was claimed to raise consumer purchasing power and increase employment. These codes were poorly written and had no enforcement mechanisms and many employers ignored them. “Many businesses slanted their NRA codes to provide higher profits rather than the better wages for labor and lower prices for consumers that the cooperative design called for.”The NRA was ran by federal officials with no prior

Programs such as the AAA, Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the CCC, Civilian Conservation Corporation. The CCC for example, employed the citizens of the United States to earn their own money, and set them up with better chance at work later on. So without directly paying money to the citizens it benefited them for a longer period of time, and a while after the program ended. To conclude, “Recovery” programs make a beautiful step two in “recovering the United States from its’

Next goal of FDR was to provide recovery to Americans and the government. Roosevelt created the NRA (National Recovery Act) which established and administered a system of industrial codes to control production, labor regulation, prices and trade practices in business. Even though this was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court during the Schechter Decision, it led to the creation of PWA and NIRA which kept money into the economy and theory of “priming the pump” to stimulate economy. Although FDR’s aim in bringing an end to the depression by pumping money into economy, agencies were ineffective led to creation of Second new deal which continued to create government involvement in economy. NLRB or Wagner Act gave workers protected right

The next step in FDRs New Deal is recovery. The objective of the National Recovery Administration was to create codes for businesses to follow. These codes would then help to provide minimum wages for employees, restrict the number of hours worked to prevent over time and set prices and production levels. The goal was to fix the American economy by limiting competition, rising power purchased by the consumer and hiring unemployed workers back to work for them once more. By mid-1933, the new agency achieved the voluntary acceptance by nearly 600 industries of new codes. The new codes covered nearly 30 million workers. One problem was that the chief administrator was chosen because of his well-known service in the WIB during World War I. Sadly,