Life did get better for many Americans in the 1930s. How far was Roosevelt responsible for this, or was it due to other factors?

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History Coursework #3

Life did get better for many Americans in the 1930s. How far was Roosevelt responsible for this, or was it due to other factors?

Many Americans in the 1930s faced better living conditions. Roosevelt and his New Deal was one of the key factors that led to these improvements. The New Deal aimed at three things: relief, recovery and reform. This meant that it would: relieve extreme poverty, revive the American economy by creating more jobs and reform the country into a better place by bringing in measures such as welfare benefits. Roosevelt also claimed to rescue the banking system in order to prevent it from becoming corrupt. However, Roosevelt did not manage to solve all the problems of the nation as unemployment remained at a high rate, industrial conflicts still continued, and blacks and women still faced discrimination.

Although the New Deal had not managed to achieve all that Roosevelt had hoped, it was still relatively successful in terms of relieving extreme poverty and providing jobs for the unemployed. During the first phase of the New Deal between 1933 and 1936, the unemployment rate declined rapidly as many alphabet agencies