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    Essay President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in response to the Great Depression that was wreaking havoc on America in the 30’s, enacted a plan called the New Deal. Which entailed a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations to hopefully restore our country to a state of prosperity. The prospects of this New Deal were stated to be all about the three ‘R’s. These three ‘R’s included: Relief for the unemployed and poor, Recovery of the economy back to normal levels

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    President FDR's New Deal prepared America for WWII after the Pearl Harbor attack. In the1930's the US government had a strong isolation movement. Isolationists thought the wars in Europe should stay in Europe, and President FDR knew that was not possible so he started the Lend Lease Deal. His Lend Lease Deal with Britain and the Soviet Union helped in giving America ideas on how much power they had. The Lend Lease Deal was that America would loan Britain their guns and ships to attack Germany during

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    Black political sentiment started to shift toward the democratic party with the Presidential campaign of New York Governor Al Smith for the 1928 election. Al Smith captured 17 percent of the black precincts of Philadelphia, 27 percent of the Black precincts of Cleveland and Chicago, and 28 percent of Harlem. These statistics showed a shift in support to the Democratic party previously unseen in American History. Full black voter shift did not occur with Al Smith’s Democratic Party. Al Smith wanted

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    Robert Taft refers to the New Deal in the book American Dreams with the following words: “Whatever may be said for them as emergency measures, their permanent incorporation into our system would practically abandon the whole theory of American government and inaugurate what is, in fact, socialism.”1 Taft's words are chilling and truer now than ever before. The New Deal programs may have seemed like a “good deal” but the implementation of these government-controlled programs

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    effect was that many people lost their savings, businesses closed, and jobs were lost. This horrendous period is known as the Great Depression. Once again things began to look up as Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for president and created the New Deal. This era reflects how human nature reacts to such change. The many lost jobs caused Americans to become hungry. Source A tells of how the poor stuck together. The author says, ¨it was a warm and friendly

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    remarkable speed, which would go on to be coined The New Deal. These systems would forever change American politics. Roosevelt’s New Deal revolutionized not only the role of the government in citizen’s everyday lives but the also, responsibility of the president and the authority of the executive branch, as well as the whole identity of the Democratic Party. Through implementing protective policies and support systems for struggling Americans, The New Deal created a safety net for American citizens that

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    The New Deal was a specific set of government works programs put into effect by President Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression. The New Deal took action to bring fast economic relief as well as improvements in industry, finance, agriculture, housing, the labor force, etc. The traditional American policy of laissez-faire was opposed in the new democratic promise of the “New Deal”. The majority of the New Deal was enacted in the first couple months of FDR’s presidency, which later became known

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    The New Deal was good because it provided Americans with hope, jobs, and government assistance during a time when American citizens could not help themselves. The Great Depression caused the US to fall apart economically, and the New Deal was put in place to try to fix the economy. President Roosevelt thought this was the best way to fix the economy, and it was. But that doesn’t mean it was perfect. It also doesn’t mean it worked. While many good things came from the New Deal, many bad things came

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    New Deal Policies in the Appalachia During, Franklin D. Roosevelts precedency he made out a set of New Deal Policies, that stimulated the Appalachia region by using administrations such as: PWA (the Public Works Administration), AAA (the Agricultural Adjustment Administration), these New Deal Policies unionized coal miners, increased the production of large farms and stimulated wages, but also had harmful effects. The reason why these New Deals were implemented is because in the 1900’s the Appalachia

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    happening again. To what many people refer to the New Deal as the "3 R's", Relief for the poor and unemployed, Recovery to the economy's state, and Reform to the financial systems were to help the United States get back on its feet. The New Deal contained some benefits for its "top rank" citizens but it left most the same as they were before or even worse. Despite the organized workers gaining full beneficiaries from the new deal initiatives, the new deal benefited the least for women and children and

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