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The Great Depression was a terrible time for the United States of America. President Hoover did barely any to help. What the country needed was a president that could help them in their time of need, but that didn’t happen as best as it could have. The New Deal was a failure. The New Deal caused the citizens to want to be dead instead of living, discrimination against blacks, and a jump in unemployment rates.
The New Deal caused citizens to want to be dead instead of living. In the song “No Depression in Heaven”, recorded in 1936, the words read, “I’m going where there’s no depression. To the lovely land that’s free from care. I’ll leave this world of toil and trouble. My home’s in heaven, I’m going there.” (Carter Family). The people wanted nothing more than to leave the Earth, because it had been so terrible for them. They were surrounded by hunger, poverty, and death. It was not a place to live. Even with everything the New Deal was working on, these people still felt that it was no place for them to be living. Did …show more content…

This is shown in this excerpt from the Digital History online textbook, “The National Recovery Administration … not only offered whites the first crack at jobs, but authorized separate and lower pay scales for blacks.” (Digital History). Roosevelt knew that this was happening, but he did not fight to abolish it. He allowed the discrimination to happen. The New Deal gave work to only select few people that fit their standards. They wouldn’t give jobs to just anyone. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration also caused injustice for blacks: “White landlords could make more money by leaving land untilled than by putting land back into production. As a result, the AAA’s policies forced more than 100,000 blacks off the land in 1933 and 1934.” (Digital History). They caused unemployment for so many black people because they wouldn’t acknowledge the black farmers. They only acknowledged the white

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