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New Deal Dbq

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Franklin Roosevelt promised to get the United States out of the Great Depression during the election; saying this is the main reason on why he became President on March 4, 1933. He had many words to live up to, for his words gave many Americans hope. The First & Second New Deal along with The National Recovery Act were all attempts of Franklin getting America out of the Great Depression like he said he would in his election days.

To begin, the First New Deal was otherwise called the Hundred Days that went from March 9th - June 16 of the year 1933. During the days Congress passed a series of laws to provide relief to victims of the Great Depression. There was little to none opposite to the many law Congress had passed. One of Franklin’s first goal was to end the banking crisis. The banking crisis was a wave of bank failures that frightened the public on February 1933. Franklin closed the bank and opened it back up a few days later to normal. …show more content…

Franklin D. Roosevelt came up with his New Deal during his presidential nomination. In his address to Congress in January 1935, during this Roosevelt called for five major goals. Improved use of national resources, security against old age, unemployment, illness, and slum clearance. They used the National Welfare Program to replace state relief efforts. It is usually dated 1935-36, also includes programs to redistribute wealth, income, and power in favor of the poor, the old, and farmers and labor unions. The most important programs included Social Security, the National Relations Act, the Banking Act, rural electrification, and breaking up utility holding

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