New Deal Dbq

Many people are diverse about whether the New Deal was a failure or a success. Some people are in the middle of it. There are valid reasons for both, and to an extent, both sides are correct. Some historic events that happened around this time period are, for one, in 1932, the highest unemployment percent was 22.5% in the 20s through the 40s. Another historic event that happened at this time is in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes president. Just two months later in May, Franklin D Roosevelt had the first Fireside Chat to talk about banking and how it works. In the same year of 1933, the NRA (National Recovery Administration) was created. To know this answer, I’ve juiced information out of documents, looked at different programs in the New

They had the “superiority” some would say. In the second Document, or “African-Americans and the New Deal” we can see that NRA was completely biased towards whites. “Most New Deal programs discriminated against blacks. The National Recovery Administration, for example, not only offered whites the first crack at jobs, but authorized separate and lower pay scales for blacks,” (African Americans and the New Deal 2). This also ties back to the first reason of how the AAA was pushing African-Americans off their own land. A counterclaim for this claim could be that even though whites were “superior” back then, Indians were also helped out a bit by giving them successful and fully functional business for about 75 of the tribal corporations. “About seventy-five of the tribal corporations are now functioning, with varying degrees of success, and the number continues to grow. The Jicarillas have bought their trading post and are running it; the Chippewas run a tourist camp; the Northern Cheyennes have a very successful livestock cooperative: the Swinomish of Washington have a tribal fishing business. There are plenty of others to prove these corporations can be made to work,” (Whither the American Indian