Did the New Deal end the Depression in the USA in the 1930's?

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Did the New Deal end the Depression in the USA in the 1930's?

The depression in America was a total breakdown after the "boom" of the 1920's. Throughout the depression people lost theirs businesses, jobs, and houses. Companies had to cut back on production, so people lost their jobs. Some companies had to shut down completely. Banks went bust, as people couldn't pay back what they owed. Also when people heard that banks were going bust they panicked and tried to take their savings out of the banks. People had lost their confidence and didn't want to buy any of the new products that had brought America its earlier success. Nobodies job was safe, and so they all had to save to pay for such simple things as food, and clothing. It was a cycle nobody wanted any of the produce, so businesses didn't need anyone to make them, and if people weren't getting wages then they had no income to help increase demand. And as America had isolated itself from the other countries, they only had themselves to help.

The president of America at that time was Herbert Hoover. He was a Republican, both him and his fellow Republicans believed that the government shouldn't get involved with the economy. This is what he said both before and during the depression. When the American people started to ask questions then he gave optimistic speeches about how the depression would pass, and they just needed to keep their sprits up. The people of America weren't happy about Hoover's attitude towards something that was destroying most of their lives. So when they got kicked out of their homes they all lived together in shantytowns known as "Homerville's".

As a result of Hoovers attitude F.D. Roosevelt won the 1932 presidential election. In order to sort out the crisis America was in he knew he had to do a lot of work. He began by asking for special emergency powers for the first 100 days that he was President. During this time Roosevelt had started the New Deal. The New Deal was meant to give relief to poverty, recover the economy, and also to make America better for the ordinary people. One of the first things Roosevelt did was to sort out the banking crisis. The way he did this was by introducing the emergency-banking act in March 1933. This meant that all the banks were closed for 4 days, and during this time inspectors looked at the accounts of every bank. If the had been managed properly, but had been forced out of business, then the government gave them money to re-open them. The reason this worked was because the people of America kept their savings in the bank. Americans kept their savings in the bank because they had confidence in Roosevelt. He did regular fireside chats on the radio, in which he explained his conduct to the American people, and he ask the people to work with him. So this shows that the people really did trust him.
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Roosevelt also helped the farmers. Farmers had been having problems before the depression with producing more food than the people needed. So Roosevelt set up one of his many alphabet agencies to help the farmers. They were called alphabet agencies because people found it easier to remember their initials. Well it was the AAA (agricultural adjustment administration) that helped the farmers. The AAA paid farmers to generate less, by reducing their livestock. Less produce meant that the prices could be put up again. We know that this helped the farmers because between 1933 and 1939 the farmer's income ...

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