New Deal Dbq

After World War One, the U.S. was a world of Depression. In 1932 and 1933, America had lost a lot of money and was in debt. The Great Depression was the deepest and long-lasting economic downturn in history of Western industrialized world ( History The Great Depression 1).The Great Depression happened right after stock markets crash October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out million of investors. That’s when the New Deal came out made by president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This deal was a series of program including, most notably, Social Security, that were enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 ( History The New Deal). The New Deal helped many in need and help turn around the economy but it didn’t help with

social problems. It didn’t success on some of the things like discrimination on black people, unemployment, and poverty. These are the reasons why I think the New Deal wasn’t a success.
The first reason why the New Deal wasn’t a success because of discrimination to African Americans.

In 1936, at least seventy-five percent of African Americans were for Roosevelt because his spending programs gave them a measure of relief from the Depression,and, in part the Gop had done little to repay their earlier support (Digital History 1). Most of the programs were discriminatory against blacks. Some examples of programs that were racist towards African American is the NRA. They offered white people first cracks at jobs ,but authorized separate and lower pay scales for blacks ( Digital History, African Americans 1). The FHA refuse to guarantee mortgages for blacks who tried to buy in white neighborhoods, and the Civilian Conservation Corps maintained segregated camps. Furthermore, the Social Security Act excluded those job categories blacks traditionally filled ( Digital History, African Americans 2). Although it employed a lot of people and decreased unemployment it only employed certain types of people based on ethnicity and skin

color.
The second reason why the New Deal wasn’t a success is the unemployment. During the Great Depression while stock markets fell and the U.S. struggled with turning everything around employment was in for a downturn. The U.S. was in for a did not return to 1929 GNP for over a decade and still had an employment rate of 15% in 1940. But that decreased about 15% when the original number was 25% in 1933 ( Smiley 1). In 1929, the unemployment percent of labor force was 3.2% but at the end of 1941, the unemployment percent of labor force was 6.0% this did affect the amount of people being unemployed and not having to support their families and their own selves (Smiley 1). Although unemployment began to decrease and more people began to work their were a lot of people that were still unemployed. During the Great Depression a quarter of a million were unemployed and faced problems that affected them and their loved ones.
The last reason why the New Deal wasn’t a success was because of poverty. Poverty is the state of being poor which in this case the citizens of the United States died for these bad conditions like, bad weather, starvation, and no shelter (Wikipedia 1) (Digital History 1). People died from not having food because they couldn’t afford it because of not having a job. During this condition, people usually lived outside which was bad because whether of all sorts ruined where they lived and even killed them. The worst part is they didn;t have or couldn’t afford a home where they can live but since the U.S. lost a lot of money they were devastated. Although, The New Deal provided food to people it didn’t fully save and provide food for everyone because a lot were unemployed. A quote supporting this is “In that bright land there'll be no hunger and no orphan children crying for bread (Carter 1)”. The quote meant that people are dying from poverty and starvation and they lost hope of the Great Depression.
The New Deal was not a success because of discrimination against African Americans,unemployment rates,and living in poverty.

The Great Depression was an era in history where the America had no money so they had to shut down banks. Many people lost their jobs and couldn’t afford food for their families or even themselves (Smiley 1) (Carter 1). President Roosevelt had just become president of the United States and he saw what the people of his country were suffering so he made a deal that ws suppose to help the people and end The Great Depression but some of the programs that were part of the new deal didn’t help all. Since racism still was happening, some programs still were racist towards the blacks in jobs and payments. The second and last reason why the New Deal wasn’t a success because of the unemployment rate that didn’t have much of an effect (Wikipedia 1). Lastly, people living in poverty in that time period. Since they had no jobs they couldn’t feed themselves or their families and they lived in negligent conditions some would die because of bad weathers and no shelters ( Cato History 1). The reason why this was an important era because it led to President Roosevelt to take matters into his own hands and help his people. People suffered a lot because of this era where jobs weren’t available and conditions were poor. The reason why it is important or still matter today is because the U.S. today still has some bad years where it went out of debt, didn’t have much

money, and some states are suffering because of poor conditions. Today the President, is taking matters into his own hands and he is making sure his people are safe and living well and healthy.