New Deal Dbq

The Great Depression came as rude awakening in 1930s after the growth and bloom that everybody enjoyed, and then the production surpassed the consumer market demand. Production sharply declined forcing many factories to shut down. America was unemployed, hungry, and scared. The Stock Market fell hard and deep. Who had some money lost them trying to turn the tide, but many lost it all. At these times poor actually benefited from their experience on how to survive in a poverty. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 1928 governor of New York and the Democratic Party took matters in their hands in the fall of 1932, defeating Herbert Hoover. By then the situation was beyond catastrophic.
One fourth of working Americans were jobless, and banks closed in nearly

Not very successful was the National Recovery Administration (NRA), another corporation which was to supervise fair trade codes, and attempted to guarantee workers right to bargaining, and was invalidated in 1935. Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) was intended to curb overproduction of crops, by paying farmers subsidies, and after bumpy road it was finally reenacted in 1938. To bring a financial, and later a work Relief to American people FDR brought in Harry Hopkins to direct this program, and help avoid starvation. The Works Progress Administration covered people with a federal payroll, and also provided work. Of course, there were also some challenges, like Townsend with his Plan of the pension for elderly, or like Share the Wealth movement by later assassinated H. Long. 1935 brought one of the most significant reforms: Social Security Act, a system of benefits for elderly, or injured, or ill, etc., and also a Wagner Act (finalized in 1938), pertaining to relations between Labor Unions and laborers. His works continued from Organized Labor, through equalizing rights of women in work force, to difficult era after