Secondly, millions of people where given work in government projects they set up. Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Public Works Administration (PWA) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA). All these schemes brought unemployment to a halt but not all unemployment was solved. The CCC offered short-term work to young men on conservation projects. The PWA gave men jobs to re-build roads, schools etc. Even though the PWA helped to solve unemployment that wasn’t its intention, it was only really meant to construct schools, hospitals and other public buildings. Employing men was merely a bonus for Roosevelt.
Also Roosevelt used a lot of money and time on re-building public services and he helped the homeless people. He introduced many agencies like Federal Emergency Relief Administration. This programme set up soup kitchens and gave the poor and homeless blankets, to meet their needs. This worked well and helped the poor and homeless to get back on their feet. Another agency Roosevelt introduced was PWA; this was an act to build schools, roads, dams, bridges and airports. This help America re-establish their economy, making it an improved nation. In this respect, Roosevelt, helped America find their feet and it was a step in the right direction of getting America out of the depression.
Another success of the New Deal was that it saved the banks from going bankrupt again. Roosevelt introduced the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC was rules in the stock market to stop reckless speculation; this would stop the Wall Street crash from occurring again. Also to assure the American people the banks were safe, Roosevelt established the Emergency Banking Act (EBA). He would close all the banks in America until officials checked the banks and then they could re-open if everything was acceptable. He then re-opened over 5000 banks. This was a great idea from Roosevelt not only did it bring back the faith from the government it also brought back the faith of the government. Now people could invest in their banks with the insurance that their money was going to be safe.
Even though there were many successes from the New Deal were also many failures. Firstly, the New Deal didn’t solve unemployment. It did get some Americans back to work but no all of the unemployed Americans went back to work. Therefore this is why you can not call the New Deal a complete success. Also Roosevelt had to bring in the Second New Deal to try and solve unemployment and still didn’t succeed in doing so.
Also the jobs created by the New Deal were only temporary. This meant that unemployment wasn’t going to be solved for the good and they would lose there jobs after and unemployment would be a crisis. Just like it once was. This was another failure for Roosevelt and the New deal seemed to be a waste of government’s money as well. They wasted masses of money on most of these schemes that’s actually didn’t do a lot. For example all this government money trying to build better public services and create more jobs wouldn’t last long enough. This meant that America would then face problems in the future and history would repeat it’s self.
Overall, I think the New Deal was a success. This is why I could with the statement “The New Deal was not a complete success” because Roosevelt helped solve some of the dilemmas after the depression, but didn’t completely solve them. Therefore the New Deal wasn’t a complete success. Also I feel Roosevelt faced some harsh criticism from the public, they said the New Deal wasn’t doing enough and their expectations of the New Deal were too high. They expected it to solve every problem America faced with. Nevertheless Roosevelt did do a great job and I felt that was unfair criticism.
