The New Deal forever changed the Federal Governments ' relationship with the American people. More than one-quarter of the American workforce was unemployed by 1932. When Roosevelt took office in January, 1933, he aimed to restore dignity and prosperity to the American people. The New Deal was comprised of three main points, to provide assistance to needy Americans, to improve the level of the economy , and to pass laws to eradicate poverty and unemployment. Many referred to this as the three R 's - Recovery, Relief and Reform.
Key Initiatives:
1). Ended Prohibition through ratification of the 21st Amendment.
2). Tennessee Valley Authority Act signed into law. This allowed the government to build dams along the Tennessee River to control flooding and generate inexpensive hydroelectric power for the people of the region
3). Agricultural Adjustment Act - Farmers were paid to allow their crops to fallow which ended the agricultural surplus and increased prices
4). National Industrial Recovery Act - gave workers the right to unionize, bargain for higher wages and better working conditions, and established the federally funded Public Works Administration
5). Glass-Steagall Banking Bill
6). Home Owners ' Loan Act
Even though all this good was occurring, it was through the second New Deal that the most long lasting and greatest changes occurred.
The creation of the WPA ( Works Progress Administration) not only provided jobs for the unemployed but also
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
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.
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.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed several pieces of legislation that became known as the Second New Deal. It included the passing of the Social Security act. This act provided benefits for the elderly, disabled and unemployed. It also included the National Labor Relations Act. Originally known as the Wagner Act, it gave organized labor rights to bargain collectively with businesses and forced employers to allow unionization of their employees.
Some of the things that came from the second new deal were the WPA, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. All of these things were made to help the working people and the people who wanted to work. The WPA gave unemployed people jobs. The National Labor Relations Act made sure people weren’t treating their workers unfairly. Finally, the Social Security Act allows people who retire to continue getting money from their jobs.
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.
The workers also saw benefits in the workplace. For example this article states, “Laborers benefitted from protections as witnessed by the emergence of a new powerful union, the Congress of Industrial Organizations”. (“An Evolution of the New Deal”). Workers benefits made going work better and helped them do their jobs more efficiently.
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
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
As soon as Franklin Roosevelt came to power, he was quick to react to the countries needs. The text states, “Swift legislation regulated the stock market and the banking system, improved the agricultural economy, and introduced a social security program” (“Great Depression”). Franklin Roosevelt was swift in recognizing the problems facing the country and attempted to solve the issues. His legislation focused on securing the economy and beginning to built back up the trust between the government and the American people. It was successful, to an extent. People did begin to trust the government again but economic decline would not stop immediately. There were signs of progress; From 1933 to 1938 the economy experienced growth. Unemployment fell and national income increased (Jeffries). This statistic shows that New Deal reforms had some positive impact on the economy. They also succeeded in restoring confidence to the average person which was extremely important at the time. This statistic does not, however, reflect that this growth was very small relative to the growth experienced during World War II. New Deal policies failed to ever achieve enough economic growth to push the nation out of the depression. Another cornerstone of the New Deal was its campaign to make life more safe. The New Deal worked to make life less risky, and in a sense it did through acts
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
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
Millions were out of work. The government began public works projects to help bring growth back to the economy
The New Deal was a set of programs established by President Franklin Roosevelt after stepping into office in 1933, in return for all the tragedies that were going on during The Great Depression. The New Deal had four major goals and achievements. Economic recovery was the first major goal, stabilizing prices for industry and agriculture. Another goal or achievement was job creation, creating a number of special agencies that created jobs for millions. Investment in public works was also another achievement, building many highways, bridges, hospitals, schools, theatres, libraries, city halls, homes, post offices, airports, and parks all over America. The last factor was civic uplifting. It improved the lives of people everywhere, helping the