Summary: The Most Ambitious American New Deal

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His consideration for the future is reflected in his programs that made up the New Deal. FDR created these programs in order to further relieve stress from low income families and provide employment to others; his vision for the New Deal was long term. Programs such as National Youth Administration (NYA) gave families money so that their children could afford to go to school and get an education without worrying about the cost. An education provides long term benefits to future generations because it creates a more productive and wholesome society. Document 1 describes an American worker who benefited from the New Deal, Helen Farmer, who worked in the NYA as a teenager stating that it helped her own mother out when it came to money. This document reflects how FDR’s NYA provided grants to high school students in exchange for work and that allowed adolescents to continue studying without the employment rate dropping. Another program that guaranteed the well being of America’s future was the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which provided nourishment to underprivileged children who couldn’t afford it. The WPA provided employment to the unemployed and new construction to communities around the United States. Daily service of warm food was also prepared by women workers that made it possible for millions of children to have a meal, while providing women with jobs, which

In his work The Achievement of the New Deal, author William E Leuchtenburg argues that when the great depression was shaking the stability of the American life, the new deal which is the policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt led America towards the light. He shows us the drastic change that the deal brought which was very controversial and brought positive socioeconomic changes. It shows how the American life changes and the economy flourished in America. Leuchtenburg was a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a brilliant scholar of the life of Roosevelt.

The New Deal was a set of federal programs with the principle of social-welfare liberalism. President Roosevelt was deeply compromised to help the most vulnerable in the ongoing crisis. In second inaugural address he outlines the progress of the New Deal “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bed morals…. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come to the conviction that in the long run economy morality pays.” At some extend President Roosevelt proudly tell the Nation that he was heading to the right direction to progress. Some of the New Deal successful programs that brought relief and dignify living to many Americans were Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) a direct governmental regulation of farm economy to resolve the overproduction problem. In the unemployment relief, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) that provided federal funds for state relief programs. Public Works Administration (PWA) a construction program that lead to Civil Works Administration (CWA) that provide work for more than 4 million Americans repairing, building, and constructing America's infrastructure. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) that mobilized young men to do reforestation and conservation work helping their family’s income and the country reservation. In 1935 in housing issues Works Progress Administration (WPA) Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) that help many Americans keep their

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt led his presidency for three terms, from 1934-1945, leading the nation through the Great Depression and World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration developed a more elaborate program to the New Deal; the New Deal enforced more power for the federal government in the United States. In Document 1, Meridel Lesueur wrote for New Masses on January 1932, emphasizing on women's position in society. Women in this time were perceived as dependent and Lesueur indicates the government's denial in support for women. On March 7, 1934 a letter was directed to Senator Robert Wagner (Document 2). Senator Robert Wagner contradicted the ideals of the New Deal from Roosevelt’s administration. Wagner led

President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried the solve the problems if fear, chaos, hysteria, and decline of the American economy that came with the Great Depression. Roosevelt used relief, reform, and recovery to help the people. His plan was the “New Deal” which is seen as controversial. Although Roosevelt worked hard to improve the lives of American, there were still negative interactions between the different races and classes of the time.

Former president, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) once said, “I pledge you- I pledge myself to a New Deal for the American people.” This quote sums up exactly what FDR did in his time of office; FDR created New Deals for the American people. He believed that the New Deals would help to end the Great Depression. This essay will be on, the economic problems that existed during the Great Depression, the strategies used by Herbert Hoover and FDR to deal with the economic problems, and how the overall effectiveness of the economic programs initiated by Hoover and FDR.

The Social Security Act was a program meant to attract money from citizens, but ensuring they they will get something in return (Doc D). This act collected money from citizens, and when they turn 65 years old, are able to collect money back in the form of monthly checks. FDR’s point of view in creating this act was that people will be more likely to put their money into something that they know will reward them back in the future. As a result, Social Security money was put back in the economy and helped decrease the amount of debt that the United States was in. According to William Lloyd Garrison in 1934, the government was putting enormous amounts of money into public relief and public works projects that expanded throughout the country (Doc C). This policy, known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), created jobs for improving infrastructure such as repairing roads and building more buildings. This improved employment in America and helped people gain money back through these new jobs. A graph of Unemployment from 1927-1947 serves a purpose for showing the pattern of unemployment from before and after the Depression (Doc G). Unemployment decreased in 1934, the same year the government started these public work projects, which proves that the WPA policy was effective in creating positive

Americans, during the 1930s, clearly needed help. Too many were unemployed, struggling, starving, and/or homeless. One of the biggest legacies of the New Deal is that it combated unemployment with jobs in infrastructure. Many agencies and programs were set up to help increase America’s infrastructure and provide many needy people with jobs. One of those organizations was the Works Progress Administration. Incredibly, the WPA employed an average of 2.1 million people annually for a total of almost 8 million people. It had become largest New Deal program and required almost 11 billion dollars to fund it (Friedrich). The WPA was made with one goal in mind: to get people back to work so they can get money in their pockets to survive. The WPA built highways, airfields, public buildings, and did rural rehabilitation such as planting trees. In total, it had built around 110,000 public buildings, 600 airports, 500,000 miles of roads, and 100,000 bridges (“New Deal”). Like the WPA, the Civilian Conservation Corps, had been created to provide jobs, but it was mainly for younger Americans. This program had employed and put 3

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It helped getting Americans back on their feet and go out to make money to support themselves and their families during this rough and tragic time. It was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor.

The poster promoting the New Deal Work Progress Administration (WPA) program reflects the role of the federal government in shaping U.S social life. The WPA was one of the part of President Roosevelt Second New Deal and became the maid federal relief agency for the rest of the depression. The purpose of the WPA relief program is to provide people with jobs. During Great Depression, the unemployment rate went up, leaving people become homeless and forced them to live in shantytowns. This program put workers to work constructing new bridges, roads, airports, and public buildings. The building of roads and bridges contributed to an exchange of idea and goods. In a working environment, people could also socialize with each other. Instead of suffering

The economic crisis that showed all the contradictions of capitalism led to an increase of a deep political crisis in the USA in late 1920?s. October 29, 1929 is known in the American history as the Black Tuesday. It was the date, when the American stock market collapsed. In such economically difficult situation, in November 1932, a regular presidential election took place. The Democrat Franklin Roosevelt, who spoke with the program the New Deal, came to presidency. It was a series of social liberal programs applied in the United States in 1933-1938 in response to the Great Depression. The New Deal was focused on three main principles: relief, recovery, and reform.[footnoteRef:1] They promised to bring the country to prosperity and economically stable future. However, the Conservatives criticized the New Deal during the whole period of the reforms. It was expressed by Herbert Hoover in Anti-New Deal Campaign Speech in 1936 and Minnie Hardin in 1937 in a Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt. [1: (notes)]

The New Deal was made up of three main objectives. These objectives were relief, recovery, and reform. As a country, we needed relief and recovery from the great depression. Unemployment was through the roof, farmers were struggling to succeed, and our economy was in shambles. Agencies and programs were created to help alleviate these problems and create jobs. Agencies were also created to reform industry and banking practices that had a large hand on our path to The Great Depression.