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    FDR stopped farmers from suffering showed he is very effective to the problems caused by the Great Depressions and changed the role of the government. The Great Depression especially hurt farmers because farmers lose their lands when they could not pay back their debts to the banks. The farmers needed to migrate to other places to seek for other opportunities. In order to help the farmers to overcome their problems, FDR created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), which provided immediate

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    When The Great Depression happened it left America in a major economic crisis. Herbert Hoover was the face of the Great Depression and “was considered the man who caused and did so little to stop the Great Depression” (LP169). Many nicknames and slang terms were made mocking the president’s efforts, such as Hoovervilles and Hoover flags. Herbert Hoover tried to reverse the Great Depression, but it was not until Roosevelt introduced the New Deal that America regained hope. The New Deal promised

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    enriched and empowered. It’s my duty to bring about change by providing a holistic programming to help build our youth. Currently I am working for the Social Security Administration serving the public with excellence. I am fortunate to contribute to this agency by helping others receive Disability, Retirement, Survivors Insurance, Supplemental Security Income, Medicare, and so much more. However, I am limited to what I can do, with my very own organization I can do so much more. I am truly passionate

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    Roosevelt’s main aim with relief was to solve human problem as well. One way he did so through the Federal Emergency Relief Act or FERA. This act in turn created the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, whose job it was to help thousands of people who were homeless and penniless, the money given to the FERA was also used to provide funding for schools and employment schemes. The initial funding was $5,000,000 and within the first two years $3,000,000 had been put towards home relief and welfare

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    Various Programs which were made by President Roosevelt and contributed to recovery of the economy and assisted people financially; by providing money, so they can buy their food and housing. The New Deal was important, because it organized to help Americans recover from the Depression. The Three R’s (Relief, Recovery, Reform) Roosevelt’s New Deal programs aimed at three R’s: Relief, Recovery, and Reform. Short-range goals were relief and immediate recovery and long range goals were permanent recovery

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    The New Deal increased the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. For example, the Social Security Act caused people to start relying on the government to provide them with a source of income as support after retirement. The Fair Labors Standards Act is another example of when the government started to step in to protect the rights of American workers, defining exactly what they were entitled to. The New Deal programs led to the creation of the modern welfare state, in which Americans

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    For years people across the world have looked up to America as the land of opportunity. People save their whole lives to come to America to start a new life. These men and women came to begin lives away from their old countries. With the great depression came the end of the american dream. With no hope in sight Americans elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the first step in the wrong direction. FDR’s New Deal failed in its goal of ending the depression and bringing the economy and American People

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    Many of the federal and state programs that provide income security to U.S. families have their roots in the Social Security Act (the Act) of 1935. This Act provided for unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, and means-tested welfare programs. The Great Depression was clearly a catalyst for the Social Security Act of 1935, and some of its provisions—notably the means-tested programs—were intended to offer immediate relief to families. However, the old-age insurance program—the precursor to today's

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    The period between the stock-market crash of October 1929 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 was dominated by one of the worst economic crises in American history. One observer called the 1930s "years of standstill," when "everybody and everything marked time." The confidence of Americans in progress and prosperity, so marked during the 1920s, suddenly vanished. But hard times were not new, and many Americans had suffered even during the prosperous 1920s, especially workers in textile

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    1933 people were unemployed Americans and hundred banks were closed due to the Great Depression. That puts so much crisis that FDR was facing serving while the Great Depression. He also was the one who came up with Social Security Card. Franklin D. Roosevelt came up with the Social Security Card for it would make it easy during the great depression since they can keep track of the people that were unemployed(“Franklin D. Roosevelt”).Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd president who served during the

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