The new deal was a bunch of acts that would be followed to stop the ‘depression’ and to make sure ‘the wall street crash’ would never happen again. It came into action in 1933. The new deal had many different features:
The Federal Relief Agency (FRA) was the government giving money to the poor by spending $500 million on soup kitchens, blankets, employment schemes and nursery schools. This helped people who lived in poverty and who on one would employ. It would also help the youth of America and more importantly, people would see that America was improving.
The Civilian Conservational Corps (CCC) was mainly for young unemployed men. They could sign for periods of time to help the environment, like national parks. The money earned would go back to their families. 2.5 million Young men were helped by this scheme.
The Public Works Administration helped people as it gave them money to build roads, schools, dams, airports, bridges and much more. This also created millions of jobs.
The National Recovery Administration improved working conditions for most people and outlawed child labour and set fair wages.
Many people thought that Franklin D Roosevelt was doing to little but he thought that it would transform America but it didn’t seem to be working. Franklin D Roosevelt then introduced the second new deal. The second new deals features were:
The Wagner act. This forced all employers to let trade unions operate in their companies and negotiate with employers for better pay and better working conditions. It also made it illegal for employers to sack workers for being in a union. This helped the working class of America.
The Social Security act provided state pensions for the elderly and widows. The Social Security act also setup a scheme for unemployment insurance. This would take money from the company owners and workers and give some of it to the unemployed.
The new deal – Why Franklin D Roosevelt introduced the new deal?
The new deal was a bunch of acts that started in 1933. It hoped to achieve a better America and for the depression and the Wall Street crash to never happen again.
In december1930 one of the biggest banks in the United States of America went bankrupted. It had 400,000 depositors. Also almost one third of New York saved with it. In 1931, things didn’t go much better as the European banks had many escalating problems. People started taking money out and storing it at home. In 1932 president Hoover paid the price for not being able to solve the depression. He had refused to accept there was a problem until 1932.
After that, Franklin D Roosevelt became the president of America in 1932. Then he and the brains trust started the new deal to solve all of these problems. Franklin D Roosevelt was a kind man he was also very rich. He had lost his legs to polio (a disease) so he knew what it was like to not have things. These are his personal reasons why he cared and helped the poor.
Franklin D Roosevelt knew that his ideas would work partly because he took advice from the brains trust and his wife but mainly because he tried most of his ideas in New York first.
When the new deal started in 1933, 24.9% of people in America were unemployed and by 1942, only 4.7% of Americans were unemployed. This shows us the importance of the new deal.
The new deal – Was the new deal a complete success?
I would agree that the new deal was a success but not a complete success. In my opinion, it was a compromising set of acts. Different acts helped different groups of people. For example the Civilian Conservational Corps (CCC) helped young unemployed men but didn’t really affect the older retired citizens of America. But the new deal as a whole did help most of the citizens of America.
The new deal did help many people. The new deal started in 1933, 24.9% of people in America were unemployed and by 1942, only 4.7% of Americans were unemployed. This shows us the results of the new deal and how important it was for the Americans and most of all it tells us if the new deal was a success.
The new deal was a success as it helped so many people but many people said that it didn’t do enough. This is why you cannot say that it was a “complete success”. The new deal did help America as a whole but it didn’t really help people as individuals.
