Life did get better for many people in the 1930s. Was it because of what FDR achieved?

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GCSE History Coursework Assignment Three

Life did get better for many people in the 1930s. Was it because of what FDR achieved?

In the first few years after the 1932 election, the people of America were becoming better off, slowly they were returning to pre-depression standards.  But they were still not as well off as they had been during the boom years.

        Many factors contributed to this and probably the one that had the greatest effect was the ‘new deal’ policies of Franklin D Roosevelt’s Administration.  This was a set of new legislation’s that tried to help get the American economy back on its feet and increase the rate of employment in areas that had been hit most badly.  

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        Franklin D Roosevelt introduced similar schemes when he was State Governor of New York.  One of the ways in which the new deal helped people was to create new agencies to share out money and start initiatives in many parts of American life, both rural and urban.  Agencies were created such as the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) to help the suffering grain farmers of the US.  The AAA bought surplus produce and destroyed it to get the market working again.  This did help.  

 Another agency was the PWA (Public Works Administration) which was charged with the task of building ...

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