New Deal Dbq

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Hello Jahaira,
The New Deal was a turning point in the social welfare history of the United States. The New Deal is often summed up by historians via “The Three R’s: relief, recovery, and reform” (Kennedy & Cohen, 2016). In response to the Great Depression, it seems clear that President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) recognized the need of the people. In fact, he rolled out the first portions of the New Deal within the first one hundred days of his presidency (Kirby, 2013). The workings of FDR’s New Deal set a prescient for social services in our country. The New Deal – for perhaps the first time in our nation’s history –cemented the idea that the government can “help regulate social and economic affairs” (Paul 2017). As you said, Jahaira, this was an ‘eye opener’ for Americans in terms of social welfare.
However, although the New Deal changed the social welfare climate in America, it had some flaws. For instance, the New Deal mostly benefitted white Americans. The plans on the New Deal did little to help people of color. For instance, the Federal Housing Administration only further ensured the Jim Crow Laws of the time. Moreover, the labor assistance programs such as Works Progress Administration, did paid African Americans less than whites. FDR’s New Deal did nothing to aid people of color in their deleterious “discrimination …show more content…

One of the focal goals of this program was to bring America back to its pre-Depression economy. Yet by 1939 it had not done so. It was the United States involvement in World War II that finally “cured the nation's economic woes” (UsHistory.org, 2018). When millions of American men went to war and those here in the homeland began jobs in wartime factories, there was a rapid decline in unemployment numbers. The end of World War II (1946-1964) is known as the baby boom because after the war, America was in the best economic shape it had ever been and the birth rate

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