'The New Deal' helped the banks because if the banks were closed the economy would not be able to work any more and soon after that nobody would have any money to spend but if the banks stayed open the U.S.A could be at the brink of collapse because of the banks not being able to run themselves adequately and may fail. This quickly fixed by Roosevelt who introduced a series of measures such as Emergency Bank Act, March 1933. It attempted to solve immediate issues, which made banks stay closed for four days while the government inspected the accounts and made sure it had enough bad debt reserves, banks that did not meet these requirements were simple shutdown. This was one of the main features of ‘The New Deal’.
Agriculture had many problems; one of them was over production. This meant even the prices stayed low and many farmers would not be able to make a decent living out of this, so they just left their crops to rot in the fields. The solution, which Roosevelt came up with, was to pay farmers who were not producing; it was called the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA). Helping the farmers was a main part of the 'New deal' that Roosevelt focused on.
Roosevelt helped the unemployed by creating more useful jobs, 500 airports; roads, schools, parks and playgrounds were built by the unemployed. Also a Federal Theatre gave work to 25,000 actors, this was called the F.E.R.A.
The sick and old people were considered Roosevelt's most important achievement. It was called the Social Security Act, it gave pensions to certain old people and widows, made arrangements for the government to help other people such as the blind, crippled and orphaned, and the most important aspect was that it gave Americans a national system of unemployment insurance. Roosevelt made all these laws because for the first 100 days the Congress allowed him to be a Democratic Dictator by passing laws that were needed very quickly.
Most of the new laws that Roosevelt made were alphabet agencies. These were a main feature of 'The New Deal'. The alphabet agencies were used to help the sick and old, unemployed, farmers, banks and many more. They were named after the alphabet so they could be identified and remembered quicker.
The second 'The New Deal' was a scheme called 'Share Our Wealth' which gave every USA family $6000 to spend. This was the idea of Huey Long who was a Democratic senator and Governor of Louisiana in the Southern USA. He thought by taxing the rich this would help bring USA out of the depression, which they had fallen into, and that it would help poorer people. Roosevelt agreed with this and wanted his 'New Deal' to go further which would help 'the forgotten people' who were ordinary working class people. In the second New Deal focused on long-term maintenance. Roosevelt called the legislation passed during the Second New Deal must legislation. The Wagner Act prohibited employers from interfering with union activities and gave workers the right to bargain through unions of their own choice. The Social Security Act (SCA) is said to be the most important, which took money from the workers by taxing and slowed the increase in public consumption that was needed to restore the economy. Provided unemployment insurance, old people's pensions, and welfare grants for local distribution, including aid for dependent children.
Both Deals were directed for the same purpose, but there were actually many differences and contradictions between them. The first New Deal was more of temporary changes and the second focused more on long term ones. The first was like Roosevelt’s first attempt, which did not completely work and did not satisfy everyone, it had many weak points and many were declared unconstitutional. His plan was to provide the unemployed jobs, conserving national forests and parks, restoring Civil War battlefields, building roads, and generally improving many of America’s natural resources. On the Second New Deal was basically that the depression was not over and many were still unemployed, so his first deal came under attack. Then Roosevelt had to reform the New Deal with better and more long-lasting ideas. The measures Roosevelt took during the Second New Deal seemed very radical, but actually they were all programs that had been floating around in Congress for many years. Like that of The Wagner Act which provided more sense of freedom for the people. And the Social Security Act (SCA), which really helped, balance the economy by taking money from the rich.