The Success of the New Deal

The Success of the New Deal

Was the New Deal a success?

The new deal was a success felt by many Americans, there was

prosperity and for the first time hope for a better future.

There were a lot of successes in the new deal, unemployment being one

of the biggest, was brought down from nearly 13 million to just under

8 million. Millions of long-term jobs were created using alphabet

agencies. For the first time in American history a welfare state was

introduced, millions of people received relief, often food, shelter

and clothing. Emergency relief certainly stopped people from starving.

The government created social security and welfare schemes for the

benefit of the many ordinary people who were struck down by the Wall

Street crash, the government continued this in the future too. This

system provided even the poorest people with a better standard of

living. Another success created out of alphabet agencies were the dams

and roads built, this helped the future development of industry and

provided long term benefits for the future.

Workers rights and conditions were improved. The national recovery

administration codes did much to regulate conditions in many

industries. When the Supreme Court made this law illegal it was

replaced by the Wagner act. This act established workers' rights to

join unions and to bargain collectively for wages. During the1930's,

union membership increased steadily. During 1937 there were many

strikes in the auto and steel industries. Workers used "sit-down

strikes" occupying their factories to make sure the machinery could

not be kept running. Without the backing of the new deal laws, these

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...e were a lot of success about the new deal,

Roosevelt was very popular with Americans. He was elected 4 times and

never lost an election, he died in office in 1945 after the Second

World War. Roosevelt created a lot of prosperity and generated

feelings of hope for the good of America. But the problem of

unemployment was not fully resolved until the start of the European

war of 1939. The need for American weapons, ammunition and America's

entry into the Second World War finally revived the economy and

relived unemployment. Even before American participation in the war,

the USA sold goods and food produce to Britain and France, which

increased the demand for American manufactured goods and food produce.

The level of unemployment fell. All in all the new deal was generally

a success give or take a few minor discrepancies.