New Deal Dbq

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Social security, welfare, and the federal deposit insurance corporation. All major parts of the United States government which stem from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. These were among the many programs used as quick responses for the Great Depression. Whether or not these programs spurred economic growth is up for debate, yet it is certain that they helped inspire the people of the United States to keep pushing forward through the uncertain economic times. Despite numerous acts being struck down by the supreme court at the time, the New Deal put into place numerous programs which helped create the backbone for American hope. Even though the New deal may not have been an amazing economical success overall, it still served a very …show more content…

The simple answer is no. America’s economy fluctuated heavily until World War II revitalized the economy. It went up and down for the decade, unlike the European nations whose economies rose progressively back to power. The depression fluctuated between better times and very bad times. Every time the economy would drop Roosevelt would put more money into the economy in order to try and keep it running. Roosevelt even went experienced a small depression in 1937 where numerous workers were laid off. Because Roosevelt kept needing to “prime the pump” for the economy, he actually created a very high deficit for the country. Roosevelt racked up a 3.6 billion deficit in his first year of office. It could even be argued that the policy of the new deal may have even hurt employment in the country. The new deal flooded the system with a large amount of money which caused inflation. This increased the buying prices of items throughout the country. The goal of creating these higher buying prices was to create a higher national income (national income=pricesxquantities). However, it ended up hurting business as the already floundering factories could not bring in enough revenue to hire more workers and combat unemployment. In fact, 1936 had a 17% unemployment rate. While certainly better than 25% unemployment, 17% is in no way a good situation. Therefore, by boosting prices on goods, the United States ended up hurting the unemployed. Also, Roosevelt’s desire for higher wealth distribution was only partially achieved.mos While some money did move to the poorer classes and taxes on the rich did take a larger part of their income, most of it went to spending in order to create public work

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