ii) There was opposition to Roosevelt’s methods of ending unemployment because in source C, it states that Roosevelt is making work for the sake of it that isnt totally essential, but only to decrease the rate of unemployment. The jobs were just ‘make work’ assignments. This was useless because the people of America would want to be more productive like make new schools and public building rather than spending excessive amounts of money on unnecessary jobs.
I also think that the people of america would oppose Roosevelt’s methods because he stooped as long as finding jobs such as scaring away pigeons from public buildings. The Americans would not have liked this because this simply shows that he is purely finding unnecessary jobs for the sake of it, despite the large decrease in the unemployment rate.
c) Source C isnt that useful as evidence about the new deal because it states that the worker joined the C.C.C. seeking for work which was what the new deal promised and it turned out he could not earn enough, so he had to move on and find somewhere better although when he did, he failed to do so. Consequently, he resorted back to the C.C.C. and then became a forest ranger in which he found 4 months of work.
This simply shows that although the new deal is offering money, it simply just is not enough and yet it is still the best possible pay you can find in that period of time as it is a depression which is why people such as US citizens have to revolve around methods of the new deal and that is why they are against it because although they may be getting something out of it, it simply isnt enough and obviously more needs to be done. This is why people oppose the methods of a new deal, and they will continue to do so until things start to improve considerably.
Source D is useful as evidence of the new deal because it simply shows a painting of the construction of a dam. This is good because it shows that Roosevelt is attempting to make things better as this dam will open up availible jobs for people and will also provide eletric power to the area. This proved Roosevelt’s Tennesee Valley Authority (TVA) to be effective as it would prevent floods in the wet season and also in the dry season, it would prevent the ‘dust bown effect’.
d) By 1941, there were still six million people unemployed in the USA. Roosevelt’s New Deal had therefore failed.
I do not agree with this because I believe Roosevelt did suprisingly well with the new deal considering the consequences of the depression. I think that it should be the time period itself to blame rather than the new deal.
In source A, it states that four million people had found work through the new deal. This was four million out of the ten million. This means that the New Deal was already 40% sucessful in achieving its plans. It also achieved many more things such as recovering the farmland in Tennesee through the vocation of the dam which also opened up new job opportunities and generated electricity for the local area.
Source F is a graph from a school history text book showing unemployment figures in the USA in the years 1929-41. If you study the graph, you will notice that there was a tremendous decrease in the unemployment rate within the years 1933-41. This was through the vocation of the New Deal which simply shows that the new Deal was proved to have been successful as it opened up jobs for millions of American citizens.
