New Deal Dbq

The “New Deal” was the FDR’s response to the nations catastrophe; the Great Depression. After the lack of improve the country’s struggle, Herbert Hoover was not reelected, thus; FDR won 57% of the deal, and the Democratic Party was in charge of Congress. The New Deal sought to help the nation’s economic struggle during the Great Depression by mending it, and preventing any subsequent depressions. These purpose of these programs was to respite the country through money, (typically those who who less wealthy). A major program used to provide help for the country was the reform programs that were created to govern the nation’s economic situation to avert a future depression.

Regrading the “first” New Deal, it was created using Roosevelt’s programs. These policies included the CCC ( Civilian Conservation Corps), by which it paid young people to build nations parks, other programs include: AAA, the Glass Steagall Act, and most vitally, the NRA. The intent of the NRA was to allow leader in government to create a plan to sought out better conditions for the country’s citizens, and regulate the prices on products, unfortunately, this did not ignite

positive change; thus came the FRA. The FRA was used to give welfare for those who were much more desperate and living in poverty.

Despite the FRA’s support to those much more desperate through the country; this brought much concern to President Roosevelt, in fear that the nation would become much too reliant on the government to service them.

Another program put in place to help the desperate country during the Great Depression was the Civil Works Administration, which employed four million people (led to the building of bridges, schools and much more. Although the government put in place many policies and programs which sought to benefit the nation, the AAA did not achieve the same. The Agricultural Adjustment Act granted the government the authority to regulate, and raise farm prices by paying farmers to produce less product. The states most affected by this were Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas, by which the drought led to the Dust

Bowl.

In contempt of the effective programs the government put in place during the Great Depression, the country still suffered. The programs provided relief for those suffering immensely through welfare, and others were given jobs (CCC). In fact, even today some of these programs are still in place; such as FDIC; which secures bank deposits against any future tragedies. The programs and policies such as: the FDIC, CCC, and FRA allowed stability for the nation’s economy throughout the Great Depression.