New Deal Dbq

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How People Survived
“The Great Depression was an economic slump in North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world.” (The Great Depression)
The hardest hit were Black Americans, the elderly, those in areas where factories shut down, Farmers caught in the Dust Bowl era, and those in coal mining regions. All were marginally poor before the Depression- barely making ends meet. The country’s overall economic difficulties left them to struggle amid poverty, hunger, and illness. (Research)
The Great Depression brought a new way of life to all classes of people. Practically everyone had to deal with major losses and drastic changes. Children had to cope with the loss of a stable life and an …show more content…

The New Deal program, implemented by President Roosevelt in 1932, was only effective in certain areas. Governor Eugene Talmadge stalled the New Deal Plan. He thought it was an intrusion into the state’s local affairs and a “communist Experiment”. Talmadge did everything he could to stall the New Deal plan and did little to address the economic distress of his state. In 1936’ E.D. Waters was elected governor and he worked with legislators to put in effect some of the programs of the New Deal. With the plan in effect, federal funds were received for dependent children, the aged, the blind, and helped support federal unemployment and workers’ compensation. (Mazarri)
The New Deals impact on the state’s lowest income population was mixed and benefits for poor white farmers were minimal. Georgia’s politics of white supremacy led to the federal governments bowing down to the state’s wishes and curtailing benefits for blacks. President Roosevelt’s farm policies aided in the decline of the cotton plantation and this led to more hardships for these

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