New Deal Dbq

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Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was seen as a plan to help get the American citizens out of the deep, dark Great Depression. There are many plans he had in action within this New Deal to help them achieve this. Some of the plans he had in action with the new deal to make a change was due to making changes in economy, creates jobs, and social security. All of these plans were a success in helping the Americans to get out of the Great Depression.

Economy was one of the hardest aspects to get a hold on during the Great Depression. Franklin Roosevelt tried his best in trying to make a change to better the lives of the Americans because of the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression. The stock market crash led into the Great Depression and this …show more content…

Roosevelt did his best in taking actions to put an end to these loss of jobs so we could once again turn the economy around and get it going back in the right direction. According to “Putting people back to work”, “The largest relief program of all was the works progress administration's. When the CWA expired, Roosevelt appointed Hopkins to head the WPA, which employed nearly 9 million Americans before its expiration. Americans of all skill levels were given jobs to match their talents.” People of all races, religions, and skilled/ unskilled were given an opportunity to make a living for themselves due to the WPA. According to “Civilian Conservation Corps”, nearly about 3 million unskilled young men laborers were hired to work here. At these camps it gave these young men an opportunity to provide for their families or even for just themselves. Within these camps helping these young unskilled men also makes a positive effect on the economy. Having these young men begin to work and allowing the older generations to retire. Older generations retiring is allowing more job openings and this allows for social security to come in and help save …show more content…

According to “The New Deal was a Failure”, “As to the New Deal, I believe that it has been a failure as it has protected the trusts more than the American people. Today, the poor are poorer, and the trusts are richer.” In this quote Dr. Santos believed Roosevelt was unfit to be the president because he did not step in at the beginning. Santos believed Roosevelt should have stepped in and tried to help America before it got as bad as it did. Santos said, “I must state in making these declarations that I was one of so many fools that believing in the so much “cackled” New Deal, and that I went to deposit my vote for the one who is today President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who has deceived my most pure illusions with the respect to the solution of this great crisis….” The people think they have made the wrong choice for their President and they feel as if they have been lied to. Some feel as if they shouldn’t have voted for Roosevelt because his New Deal was not as good as he said it would. Apparently this “New Deal” was only to protect the trusts of the country and not the people. With having a democracy, the people should be taken care of and have a say in some of what goes on in our country. The economy, loss of jobs, and social security were

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