The New Deal Forever Changed The Federal Governments

It also forced people to show their statistics of their stock. This showed the buyer how much that stock made and how much that stock loss.The second biggest accomplishment for The New Deal was the Works Progress Administration also was a big success during The Great Depression. This program instituted many great things including, hiring people such as artists, actors, and writers who were unemployed, build lots of infrastructures and gave children hot school lunches while providing women in need jobs to work. According to Ellen S. Woodard, writer of “Hot Lunches for a million school children, she wrote: The WPA is making it possible for the many underprivileged children of the present to grow into useful healthy citizens of the future.” ( Document D) The WPA helped save many lives during The Great Depression, this is why it's labeled as an accomplishment. The third accomplishment for The New Deal was the Fireside Chats was instituted to let the President to directly address the people about the Great Depression This allowed citizens to hear the president's voices as well as letting the president to spread hope to American citizens. Many citizens loved The fireside chats including, George

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 as the Hundred Days. The first objective was to lessen the hardship of the large amount of unemployed workers in the nation. The Works Progress Administration(WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC) were created to establish short term government aid to temporary jobs. The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was created to develop rules to govern trade practices, hours, child labor, wages, and collective bargaining. Also, the New Deal worked to avoid another stock market crash and bank failures.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) gave insurance for bank deposits and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was created to protect the people from stock-market companies committing fraud. An agricultural program , the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) attempted to raise prices by providing subsidies to farmers to reduce crop production. The New Deal was filled with government works programs to help pull the country out of the Great Depression but,

Document C illustrates that the New Deal represents change, but not revolutionary change. This caused the role of the government to expand. While Document D states that some New Deal acts were at odds with others. One example of a program in the second new deal is the Social Security Act, which created a retirement fund for citizen, but this act failed to help farmers, and domestic workers. The Tennessee Valley Act was part of the new deal, which helped with creating jobs, by building dams. Document I stated “The most important [The] most important contribution of the Roosevelt administration to the age-old color line problem in America has been its doctrine that Negroes are a part of the country and must ·be considered in any program for the country as a whole.” The New Deal acts were somewhat effective, as they did help some. In the end it wasn 't the New Deals that got America out of the depression it was their involvement in World War 2. World War 2 caused the unemployment rate to drop, since the whole country’s economy transformed to benefit war effort.

To solve this he created many programs such as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Poor men and women were barely supported by the government.(Doc A) The CWA created jobs for americans by working on roads, constructing buildings or other things. This was good for employing people and repairing the country. The CCC also did the same thing by maintaining and restoring the environment. All of these programs were in the New Deal and dropped unemployment from 12,830,000 unemployed to 7,700,000 unemployed, proving the effectiveness of these relief programs. (Doc J) The creation of such programs also changed the role of goverment by demonstrating that the government could have big decisions done by states. The numerous programs FDR implemented were all run by the bureaucracy, thus the "bureaucracy in Washington grew by leaps and bounds" according to William lloyd Garrison, Jr. (Doc

Following the Great Depression, the government instituted a series of experimental projects and programs, known collectively as the New Deal, which aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans. Roosevelt’s New Deal permanently changed the federal government’s relationship to the U.S. populace for the New Deal was a revolutionary step towards the use of governmental power to address economic and social issues.

One major problem was that people were unemployed, which meant they were left without jobs. Mostly people were unemployed and didn’t have any money and couldn’t wait to find a job. Document 4 explains that unemployed people would stand in line to get food from the soup kitchens. As seen in the document, they are giving out coffee and donuts. As part of the first New Deal, President Roosevelt created the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. This program gave the states money to help needy people. The money was given to the state governments and they would decide how the money was given out to the needy people. During the second New Deal, some legalization was passed. During this time the social security act and unemployment insurance became a law. These are taxes that would put money away for people, so they can have it when they need it. The social security tax taxed workers and the unemployment insurance taxed the employers. This act acted as a pension/retirement savings for people. The Unemployment Act was there if someone lost their job. These programs are still used today. Another thing that was FDR’s main priority, was to get people back to work. FDR created Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Works Administration. The CCC was created to plant trees, improve national parks etc. The PWA was created to build roads, shipyards etc. These different things were created to help people with jobs and to also

During this time, “…FDR promised ‘a new deal for the American people’” (Polenberg, 8). FDR quickly realized that in order to win over the citizens of the United States and to fix the crisis they were in, he had to address the two main things that he saw every American wanted during this economical depression. Polenberg informs his readers that FDR saw that the two things every American wanted was “…Work; work with all the moral and spiritual values that go with work. And with work, a reasonable measure of security—security for themselves and for their wives and children” (p.8). Knowing that these were the two main aspects (at the time) that FDR had to place the majority of his attention on, he went to work immediately as “He feared that a resolution was likely if he failed, as Hoover had, to solve the nation’s problems” therefore he begun formation of the first New Deal reforms (Polenberg, 8). These reforms were “…designed not so much to promote reform as to proceed recovery,” (Polenberg, 9) therefore indicating that “…the Roosevelt administration intended to move the country in a dramatically new direction” (Polenberg, 9). Some of the programs that the New Deal initiated were: the NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act), the NRA (the National Recovery Administration), the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act), the WPA (Works Progress Administration), the CWA (Civil Works Administration), and the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) just to name a few (Polenberg, 9-13). Each reform act was aimed at recovering a different but specific area of society. For example, the TVA worked to “…provide cheap electrical power… and… help prevent soil erosion and control floods” (Polenberg, 13) while the AAA “…served as the foundation of New Deal farm policy… balancing agricultural production and consumption so as to avoid surpluses and ensure that

Nonetheless, with the New Deal it addressed the problem of unemployment and the rights of the people. In 1933 the unemployment of nonfarm workers had increased, there were millions of unemployed citizens (Doc J). Which lead to the New Deal to create jobs to provide relief to the unemployed such as with the Civilian Conservation Corps, which employed jobless men in reforestation projects. Not only were jobs being developed, but the rights of the individuals as workers were being enforced more “Huge corporations, such as United States Steel and General Motors… Have no right to transgress the law which gives to the workers the rights to self organization and collective bargaining.” (Doc G). With the NLRA which allowed workers to form unions, removing the yellow dog contract; people were now able to form labor unions without having problems with the employer. The New Deal might of not not ended the Great Depression, yet it did improve the job opportunity for the American citizen and allowing more rights for the

The New Deal also attempted to help workers. The workingman was one of the people hardest hit by the Great Depression. At one point during the one in four Americans, 25% were unemployed. FDR saw this as a major problem and attempted to correct it with a massive public works programs. The New Deal set up agencies such as the Federal Emergency Relief Association (FERA) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). FERA was given one billions dollars to help end hardship. Under FERA, the Civilian Works Association (CWA) and the Civilian Conservation Core (CCC) helped to ease people’s suffering. The CWA hired 4 million people to help do public works projects. The CCC took city boys into the country to do construction work. Their pay was mailed home to their families to help ease the financial struggles. The TVA was perhaps the most successful New Deal project. It built 20 dams and provided cheap power. It also put many people to work.

The New Deal was a success in many ways. First, it created multiple jobs for struggling families. This article states, “The New Deal itself created millions of jobs and sponsored public work projects that reached most every country in the nation”. (“An Evolution of the New Deal”). Families had a hard time finding jobs so when they were given to them, it made a major difference in their home life.

Americans, during the 1930s, clearly needed help. Too many were unemployed, struggling, starving, and/or homeless. One of the biggest legacies of the New Deal is that it combated unemployment with jobs in infrastructure. Many agencies and programs were set up to help increase America’s infrastructure and provide many needy people with jobs. One of those organizations was the Works Progress Administration. Incredibly, the WPA employed an average of 2.1 million people annually for a total of almost 8 million people. It had become largest New Deal program and required almost 11 billion dollars to fund it (Friedrich). The WPA was made with one goal in mind: to get people back to work so they can get money in their pockets to survive. The WPA built highways, airfields, public buildings, and did rural rehabilitation such as planting trees. In total, it had built around 110,000 public buildings, 600 airports, 500,000 miles of roads, and 100,000 bridges (“New Deal”). Like the WPA, the Civilian Conservation Corps, had been created to provide jobs, but it was mainly for younger Americans. This program had employed and put 3

The great depression hit everyone, crippling the economy and killing the working class. While President Herbert Hoover inherited much of his predecessors failing policies, he also took on most of the blame. Most saw him as insensitive to the millions of suffering Americans which led to his defeat in the following election to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President Roosevelt came up with the plan the new deal to help the economy recover, reform it, and relieve it and in the new deal there was the Agriculture Adjustment Act, Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Social Securities Act.

In 1935 the Works Progress Administration allowed the government to create projects for citizens to work on. It was led by Harry Hopkins and around 8.5million people created schools, roads and parks for public use. This program was key in giving americans hope into becoming great workers again. Many unemployed citizens were discouraged by the fact that they couldn’t support their families like the used to, but the Works Progress Administration satisfied that feeling of pride when working to make sure everyone you care about is all

2. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), which helped farmers by paying them not to produce crops; thereby, keeping their income from dropping by overproducing certain crops. Since less was being grown, the price for farm goods would rise. The government said that they would also pay farmers to plow some crops under and destroy some of the surplus.

Millions were out of work. The government began public works projects to help bring growth back to the economy