New Deal Dbq

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In 1929 the stock market crashed, banks failed, and many jobs were lost hitting america with a great depression. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in he decided to create The New Deal. His plan was to use The New Deal to help the problems that created the depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt successfully ended the bank crisis and provided jobs to the people this means that The New Deal was in fact successful.

The people lost all to most of their money in the bank crisis and Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to do something about it. He created The Emergency Banking Relief or Bank Holiday and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC). The Bank Holiday was an act that closed all the banks in america for four days. In the time of closure they got all the unsafe banks in order by the government. When the banks opened they were more sound because of the …show more content…

Franklin D. Roosevelt made it a part of his plan to help this matter. In 1930, four million people were unemployed but the number increased to 12 million by 1932. (sources A) Franklin D. Roosevelt knew he had to do something to solve this problem, so he created three solutions. The Civilian conservation Corp, the Work Progress Administration(WPA), and the Federal Emergency relief Administration(FERA). The Civilian conservation Corp gave healthy young men from the ages 18-25 work such as planting trees, building dams and bridges, preventing forest fire and floods. They were also given three meals a day and got payed $1 a day. The WPA also helped make jobs for people in building roads and public buildings such as schools, parks, playgrounds, and airports. They also painting murals on buildings, and gave jobs to artist, writers, and actors. The FERA made it so the federal govt gave money to the unemployed(sources F,E,G). This shows Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to do something about the unemployment rate and did in fact increase the numbers of

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