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Causes Of The New Deal

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The Great Depression of the 1930’s became one of the United States’ biggest tragedies and placed stress upon millions of Americans and their families. President Franklin Roosevelt became every American’s hopeful savior. During this decade of depression, President Roosevelt created the New Deal blueprint, which included many Federal Agencies, otherwise known as Alphabet Soup, that focused on addressing the roots of the Great Depression and ways to fix them. The main agencies of the New Deal were the: Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), National Recovery Administration (NRA), Social Security Administration (SSA), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and Works Progress Administration (WPA). The New Deal was a successful plan, which included many federal agencies; although most of the agencies were successful, the relief agencies were the most successful.
President Roosevelt’s Alphabet Soup Agencies were created based on his three r’s mission: relief, recovery, and reform. His idea of relief was giving direct aid to the homeless and unemployed. His goal for his idea of recovery was fixing the economy and focusing on creating jobs and establishing new successful small businesses. Lastly, President Roosevelt’s goal for the nation’s reform was to solve issues within the federal government and create new federal agencies that would prevent another Great Depression. These three R's were the basis of his New Deal project and the foundations of every Alphabet Soup Agency.
The recovery-based Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA), was the first federal program to place a limit on agricultural production. During the World War One (WWI), agricultural production was very profitable for Americans because many European countries were unable to produce large amounts of agriculture, so American agriculture was always in high demand. After WWI ended, Europeans were able to begin to restore their agricultural industry; thus, making American agriculture in low demand. This caused items like corn to go from $1.20 per bushel to 26 cents per bushel. Not only agriculture prices retract back to prewar prices, but farmers began losing their land due to a decline in the earning power of

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