New Deal Strengths And Weaknesses

The United States was born and grew at a rapid state and the growth expanded the nation’s size in land, politics, and the economy. However, every great nation eventually falls. In 1929, the United States economy fell to its knees and began to disintegrate. America’s economy had multiple setbacks, but they were merely bumps on the road for an event no American anticipated. The economy itself had multiple weaknesses and can be seen as the causes of the economic crash and the Great Depression; with bad distribution of income, bad corporation structure, bad banking structure, dubious state of foreign balance, and poor state of economic intelligence America’s economy completely crashed on October 1929. The decrease of consumer purchase, produce over pilling and the mass trading of stocks and shares starting on Black Thursday and finally on Black Tuesday the millions of shares became worthless. Black Tuesday was the very

Roosevelt attempted reforms and restoration of the crippled American nation known as the New Deal. The New Deal is criticized by two history professors that develop arguments to claim whether the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression or assisted the United States. History professor Gary Dean Best develops an argumentative claim which he states Roosevelt’s New Deal prolonged the Great Depression. In Best’s article, “Pride, Prejudice and Politics: Roosevelt Versus Recovery, 1933-1938”, Best uses multiple perspectives during the eight years of weakness in order to achieve his goal to make his claim. According to Best he does not only look at the individual social programs and reforms, but the after effects of these programs and sees failure, “with the failure of the United States to recover from the depression during the eight peacetime years that he and his policies governed the nation. I consider that failure tragic…but also because of the image that the depression-plagued United States projected to the world at