The New Deal Coursework

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The New Deal Coursework

The New Deal was set up by Franklin D. Roosevelt when he became president of the United States of America in March 1933. Roosevelt introduced the New Deal to stabilise the USA, focusing on his aims that he put forward in his inaugural speech.

Roosevelt made his inaugural speech in March 1933, declaring his main aims that he planned to achieve during his time as President.

During his speech Roosevelt said:

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

He said this because he wanted to assure the American citizens that he could reform the current depression in the USA and make sure no such crisis could happen again in the future. He wanted to regain the American people’s confidence in that the problems caused by the Great Depression should no longer be feared because he had a plan to resolve the bad effect of the depression on his country. Roosevelt said that he aimed to make better use of natural resources, and to lower unemployment figures by providing jobs for thousands of people. He also said that he was aiming for the protection of people’s savings and property, a redistribution of the land for those less privileged and to provide aid to the ill, elderly and unemployed.

Roosevelt was granted one hundred days of broad executive power so that he could achieve his aims by passing laws quickly without having to put them through the government. With this power Roosevelt set up the “Alphabet Laws” that were combined to form the New Deal. The different laws he passed allowed him to achieve the aims that he had proposed in his inaugural speech.

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To accomplish his first aim of restoring confidence in the American citizens, Roosevelt came up with the idea of the “fire side chat”. The fire side chat was a radio show that Roosevelt would speak on every night, in a bid to convince Americans that he would make sure that America recovered fully from the Great Depression. Because the fire side chat was a daily occurrence, it could been seen as a form of propaganda but the radio shows did in fact give confidence to Americans in the way that they he made people believe that he would keep the ...

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