The New Deal : The New Deal

Once President Franklin Roosevelt was elected during the Great Depression, his first 100 days enacted what he called the New Deal. This “deal” was a series of reforms that were meant to increase available jobs, better the working conditions, and put money back into the economy. Jobs offered during this time, as well as the relief, recovery, and reform efforts gave a kick start to the American economy, helping to pull us out of the Great Depression. Some examples of these efforts can be seen in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the National Recovery Administration (NRA), and the Social Security Act (SSA).

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew immediate action had to be taken to stop the economy from crumbling more than it already had. The New Deal enforced many new policies that helped the nation start fresh and halted any further damage to the economy. Many new legislations were put in place, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Civil Works Administration, the Federal Emergency Relief Act, and others intended to provide immediate jobs or financial assistance. These were all part of the relief stage, which was aimed to help those in urgent need of food, money and care. Founded in 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, was one of the most successful legislations and it provided jobs for young men. It was a win-win because not only were the men employed and making money, but a part of their salary was sent home to their families, saving millions, and according to document 3, they began construction projects around America,

The Great Depression, pulled the American economy to its all-time low. The government mitigated the depression with several methods. When the stock market collapsed, people started losing their jobs and then their homes to the banks. People were desperately searching for jobs even if it’s terrible, until the government formed the CCC. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was formed to provide hope and dignity to young American citizens and their future generations.

The New Deal was a set of federal programs with the principle of social-welfare liberalism. President Roosevelt was deeply compromised to help the most vulnerable in the ongoing crisis. In second inaugural address he outlines the progress of the New Deal “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bed morals…. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come to the conviction that in the long run economy morality pays.” At some extend President Roosevelt proudly tell the Nation that he was heading to the right direction to progress. Some of the New Deal successful programs that brought relief and dignify living to many Americans were Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) a direct governmental regulation of farm economy to resolve the overproduction problem. In the unemployment relief, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) that provided federal funds for state relief programs. Public Works Administration (PWA) a construction program that lead to Civil Works Administration (CWA) that provide work for more than 4 million Americans repairing, building, and constructing America's infrastructure. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) that mobilized young men to do reforestation and conservation work helping their family’s income and the country reservation. In 1935 in housing issues Works Progress Administration (WPA) Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) that help many Americans keep their

The New Deal was created as a source of solutions to save society from its downwards spiral. President FDR created the New Deal as a result of the Great Depression. He wanted to save the people from the problems caused after the stock market crashed. He introduced the 3 R’s in order to save them. The New Deal was able to create relief and reform for the people after the Great Depression and was able to increase the government.

For example, the CCC gave jobs, clothing and food to young men. This gave them the chance to provide money for their families so that they could have shelter food and clothing. The CWA and WPA also provided many opportunities for the people to get money. The WPA provided jobs in the arts for singers painters and photographers. It also paid citizens to build community projects like schools parks, and bridges. That's a ton of great things that changed the U.S. in overcoming the Great

In an excerpt from A Negro in the CCC, Luther C. Wandall wrote about his experience with working in one of the new deal's introduced by FDR. The unemployment rates were very much effected in a positive way, by the CCC. The program allowed for more older men to retire so younger men can work. The program Luther worked at was the Civilian Conservation Corp., which was effective in the sense that the men able to work, which was ages 18-25 finally got jobs and some money. “But as a job experience, for a man who has no work, I can heartily recommend it. ” (Document

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

Programs such as the AAA, Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the CCC, Civilian Conservation Corporation. The CCC for example, employed the citizens of the United States to earn their own money, and set them up with better chance at work later on. So without directly paying money to the citizens it benefited them for a longer period of time, and a while after the program ended. To conclude, “Recovery” programs make a beautiful step two in “recovering the United States from its’

During Roosevelt's first 100 days in office he addressed the conditions of the dust bowl. CCC refers to the "Civilian" Conservation Corps this program was ran by the U.S. army and employed over three million young men. So many people were looking for jobs during the 1930’s, and after the dust bowl that number rose even more. They gave jobs such as repairing bridges, building dams and roads, planting trees and etc. The CCC supplied an average of 15 dollars a month to those who worked for them and lived in camps. In most camps in nebraska the CCC worked on soil conservation efforts. FSA, Farm Security Administration loaned money to tenant farmers with low interest rates allowing them to keep their land. Many people who received an FSA loan ended up making enough money to pay their debt off and buy their land full out. The FSA wanted people to move back into the west, they began to provide separate communities in Nebraska. The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act on may12, 1933 gives out  $200 million to farmers that are facing foreclosure. Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act is approved in 1934, which states that banks cannot take farm land during a time of distress this is eventually dismissed. The federal government forms a drought relief service that buys cattle from farmers for 14 or 20 dollars a head, they throw out the cows that are not fit to eat and then give the rest are given to families in need. This effort saved a lot of farmers from going bankrupt and allowed them to keep their land. In March of 1938, the Shelterbelt Project begins which is the plating of a 100 mile stretch of trees in the great plains to prevent land erosion

These series of economic policies, called the New Deal they were very successful during those five years. The Civilian Conservation Corps was created in 1933 to help reduce unemployment.This work relief program provided jobs for many Americans during the Great Depression. The CCC was responsible for building many public works and created structures and trails in parks across the nation.The Federal Housing Administration was a government agency created to help with the housing crisis.The FHA was designed to regulate mortgages and housing conditions.The Home Owner's Loan Corporation was created in 1933 to assist in the refinancing of homes.The Social Security Act was designed to help the widespread poverty among senior

The next step in FDRs New Deal is recovery. The objective of the National Recovery Administration was to create codes for businesses to follow. These codes would then help to provide minimum wages for employees, restrict the number of hours worked to prevent over time and set prices and production levels. The goal was to fix the American economy by limiting competition, rising power purchased by the consumer and hiring unemployed workers back to work for them once more. By mid-1933, the new agency achieved the voluntary acceptance by nearly 600 industries of new codes. The new codes covered nearly 30 million workers. One problem was that the chief administrator was chosen because of his well-known service in the WIB during World War I. Sadly,

Since the beginning of time people have been affected by their income and ability to accumulate wealth. People live their lives spending or saving money based on their own expectations of what the economy might do. For hundreds of years we have studied how the economic decisions of individuals and governments affect the welfare of society as a whole. John Maynard Keynes introduced a new economic theory that emphasized deficit spending to help struggling economies recover. Keynesian economics revolutionized the traditional thinking in the science of economics. His ideas and theories were deemed radical for his time but were later enacted by some of the largest governments in the world including the United States during the Great Depression. President Franklin Roosevelt enacted the New Deal in an attempt to stimulate the economy through government spending. In this paper I will be giving background to the history economics, the Great Depression, the New Deal, the development of Keynesian Economics. This paper will focus on analyzing the following question: In an attempt to address high unemployment and economic contraction, was Roosevelt’s The New Deal efficacious in stimulating the economy and ending the Great Depression?

By 1933 millions of Americans were out of work. Hundreds of thousand of men, women, and children roamed the country in search of food and shelter. Bead lines were not an uncommon sight. One of the earliest steps to aid the unemployed was the CCC, the Civilian Conservation Corps. This program designed to bring relief to the young men of America ages 18 to 25. In this program the CCC would enroll these men in camps across the country for around $30 a month. This was a semi-military style job almost two million men took place in the CCC. They took part in conservation projects such as planting trees to maintain national forest, eliminating steam pollution, creating fish, animal sanctuaries, and conserving coal, petroleum, shale, gas, sodium and helium deposits. Jobs also came from the Civil Works Administration with jobs such as teaching to highway repairs. The National Recovery Administration established with the national industrial recovery act practiced generating more jobs so more buying would come. The NRA was declared unconstitutional in 1935 because of over regulation as recovery began to come into play. Also through the NIRA workers were given the right to Bargain with their employers through unions their own choice.

The three stages of FDR’s new deal were relief, recovery. The CCC provided relief the AAA helped the economy bounce back and SEC helped prevent a Great Depression from happening again. The CCC or the Civilian Conservation Corps has created the CCC with an executive order on April 5, 1933. The CCC was part of his New Deal legislation, fighting high unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects. The CCC combined FDR’s interests in conservation and service for the youth. As the former governor of New York, he had a similar program on a smaller scale The United States Army helped to solve an early problem of transportation. Most of the unemployed men were in Eastern cities while much of the conservation work was in the West