New Deal Dbq Essay

The 1930s brought the biggest economic disaster in United States history. The Great Depression left many unemployed and when President Hoover failed to please the people, they elected Franklin D. Roosevelt who had promised them a “New Deal”. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal allowed many white males to find work and his administration helped the United States pull through the Great Depression. However, the exclusion of women and African Americans in his policies and the suspicion of work toward a communist nation hindered the actual impact of his programs. Therefore, the responsive actions that FDR took did not impact the United States in the way it may be perceived and true progress was obstructed by prejudice and fear.

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Women faced discrimination based on the fact that many people still held their traditional values and were even more outraged at the thought of women taking their jobs. The purpose of this piece was to reflect on the absence of women society and to ask what could have been happening to them during the time. Men believed that it was wrong to hire women when their were mass numbers of unemployed men. Although women were suffering in the same fashion, people believed that they were taking away jobs and should return to their role in the home. Women like Frances Perkins were advancing during they were not always accepted in the positions they were taking. African Americans faced even greater discrimination during the 1930s. African Americans faced “inevitable discriminations” (Document I) and the Roosevelt administration took very little action to defend them. Roosevelt was worried about losing white southern democratic voters and did not take a heavy stance on discrimination in the United States during the 1930s. African Americans were seen as competition for jobs and people believed that they deserved a job more than the African Americans did. Both African Americans

Americans were anxious that all the help that people were receiving from the government was going to lead to a revolution. The fear caused by the Bolshevik Revolution and that led to the Red Scare in the 1920s continued in the 1930s. The tone of the author in a political cartoon that depicts Roosevelt saying “It is evolution, not revolution, gentlemen!” (Document C) showcases the worry that came with an increase in government involvement. Many people believed that the New Deal programs were the government getting too involved in businesses and in people’s lives. They did not want a communist revolution to occur in the United States. The New Deal was described as “philosophy and a mode of action” (Document D) and would offend conservatives who believed that big government had no place in the United States. The actions that Roosevelt took to solve the problems of the Great Depression were very progressive and not everyone supported those policies. Because a lot of Americans were unsure of the United States movement into a more government involved society, the New Deal did not reach as far as it could