The Success of the New Deal in Solving the Problems Caused by the Great Depression
Introduction- In the late 1920’s and early 1930’s the whole of America
was in a deep depression and was in desperate need of help. When
Franklin D Roosevelt was elected president of USA he came up with the
plan of “the new deal” this was a planned guideline to regenerate
money and the high standards of living the Americans once had not so
long ago. He introduced 5 major organisations to restructure the
American way of life they were now facing; these were the F.E.R.A,
C.C.C, A.A.A, T.V.A and the N.R.A. In this essay I am going to study
if “the new deal” was successful up to 1941.
During the Great Depression, when as many as one out of four Americans
could not find jobs, the federal government stepped in to become the
employer of last resort. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), an
ambitious New Deal program, put 8,500,000 jobless to work, mostly on
projects that required manual labour. With “Uncle Sam” meeting the
payroll, countless bridges, highways and parks were constructed or
repaired.
In an effort to "put Americans back to work" during the Great
Depression, the
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrolled over 100,000 young Michigan
men to perform a variety of conservation and reforestation projects.
Between 1933 and 1942, the Michigan CCC planted 484 million trees,
spent 140,000 days fighting forest fires and constructed 7,000 miles
of truck trails, 504 bridges and 222 buildings.
President Franklin Roosevelt needed innovative solutions if the New
Deal was to lift the nation out of the depths of the Great Depression,
and TVA was...
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...h. The N.R.A I believe didn’t work because
if a worker was part of the union and demanded a certain wage he would
be sacked and because of the large amount of demand for work, bosses
could hire someone for half of what the union member wanted. Overall
the “new deal” was both successful and Unsuccessful in solving the
problems until 1941 for the reasons that I have stated above. I
believe Roosevelt had the right ideas on trying to drag America out of
the depression but had underestimated the depth that America was in
and didn’t fully understand the circumstances workers were in when
they demanded an increase in wage. I do believe and conclude that the
“new deal” was successful towards the people up to 1941 and that it
restored the faith in America, this showed when the American people
elected Roosevelt 4 terms in a row.
America get back on its feet again. The agencies like the C.W.A and the W.P.A gave jobs to approximately 13 million workers decreasing unemployment and they also repaired airfields, schools, hospitals and roads. The C.C.C gave work to 2.5 million unemployed single men who restored forests, beaches and parks the C.C.C gave the young men training which did help them get jobs later on in life. However everything was not perfect with Roosevelt's Alphabet agencies, the N.R.A was a agency that dealt with the fair work fair wage giving the American workers who were signed up with them a fair competition. In 1935 two brothers broke one of their acts for selling diseased chickens the N.R.A took them to court where they were found guilty, the brothers appealed to the Supreme court where the supreme court declared that it was the business of the New York State and not Washington.
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The Great Depression of 1929 to 1940 began and centered in the United States, but spread quickly throughout the industrial world. The economic catastrophe and its impact defied the description of the grim words that described the Great Depression. This was a severe blow to the United States economy. President Roosevelt’s New Deal is what helped reshape the economy and even the structure of the United States. The programs that the New Deal had helped employ and gave financial security to several Americans. The New Deals programs would prove to be effective and beneficial to the American society.
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Assessment of the Success of the New Deal FDR introduced the New Deal to help the people most affected by the depression of October 1929. The Wall Street Crash of October 24th 1929 in America signalled the start of the depression in which America would fall into serious economic depression. The depression started because some people lost confidence in the fact that their share prices would continue to rise forever, they sold their shares which started a mass panic in which many shares were sold. The rate at which people were selling their shares was so quick that the teleprinters could not keep up, therefore share prices continued to fall making them worthless. Also causing many people to lose their jobs as the owners of factories could not afford to pay the workers wages.
The New Deal was a set of acts that effectively gave Americans a new sense of hope after the Great Depression. The New Deal advocated for women’s rights, worked towards ending discrimination in the workplace, offered various jobs to African Americans, and employed millions through new relief programs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), made it his duty to ensure that something was being done. This helped restore the public's confidence and showed that relief was possible. The New Deal helped serve American’s interest, specifically helping women, african american, and the unemployed and proved to them that something was being done to help them.
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Essentially, the New Deal did not work to include and employ as many people as it could or should have, even excluding major population types from any possible benefit from the programs. It failed to provide hard-working citizens with a steady job and food to eat. This question of whether or not the New Deal was a success has a substantial significance. If any country goes into a economic collapse like one of the Great Depression, one could use America’s experience as an example as to what steps should or should not be taken though such a time. Afterall, the importance of studying history is to learn from mistakes made in the
In response to the Great Depression, the New Deal was a series of efforts put forth by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his first term as United States’ President. The Great Depression was a cataclysmic economic event starting in the late 1920s that had an international effect. Starting in 1929 the economy started to contract, but it wasn’t until Wall Street started to crash that the pace quickened and its effects were being felt worldwide. What followed was nearly a decade of high unemployment, extreme poverty, and an uncertainty that the economy would ever recover.
#4) The New Deal was created in the time of the Depression in the United States. There were two phases to this policy created by Franklin D. Roosevelt when he became President of the U.S. The first phase was from 1933 to 1935 and the second from 1935 to 1937. During the first phase, seven policies were created. These policies were the Emergency Banking Act, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Civilian Conservation Corp, Wall Street, the Public Works Act, the National Recovery Act, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. The EBA as the first policy of the New Deal was very important. In this policy, the United States had to have the ability to spend money for the economy, so they did away with the gold standard. Now the country used a piece of paper to buy what they needed. Only banks that were in good condition would be the ones to stay open and have what the government called a "Bank Holiday." The second policy, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, focused on all the farmers that made their living on their products. The value of their goods had dropped dramatically so something needed to be done to help them during this time and that
3 Mar 2014. http://rooseveltinstitute.org/policy-and-ideasroosevelt-historyfdr/new-deal>. The "Work Progress Administration (WPA). " The American Experience. PBS.
In response to the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt was ready for action unlike the previous President, Hubert Hoover. Hoover allowed the country to fall into a complete state of depression with his small concern of the major economic problems occurring. FDR began to show major and immediate improvements, with his outstanding actions during the First Hundred Days. He declared the bank holiday as well as setting up the New Deal policy. Hoover on the other hand; allowed the U.S. to slide right into the depression, giving Americans the power to blame him. Although he tried his best to improve the economy’s status during the depression and ‘pump the well’ for the economy, he eventually accepted that the Great Depression was inevitable.
Roosevelt had finally made it happen. He helped out many people, some by even letting men From aged 17 to 23 volunteer to go camp in the forests and dig ditches, built places, and plated trees. They would earn 30 dollars a Month and two thirds of that would be sent home to there families. Also more then 8.5 million people volunteered to build bridges, roads, buildings, parks, and even airports!
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Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace described the wholesale destruction of crops and livestock as "a cleaning up of the wreckage from the old days of unbalanced production."