During the Roaring Twenties, the American people seemed to live in a fantasy world of wealth and luxury. The economy was booming due to little government interference and workers were receiving higher wages and began to receive welfare from their employers. Citizens could choose from new consumer products, such as refrigerators, washing machines, and the automobile, which revolutionized the way people traveled in the United States. However, this newfound prosperity would be short lived. At the end of the Roaring Twenties, the American people witnessed the worst economic depression in history and they were apart of it. Unemployment rates skyrocketed through the roof and people were losing millions of dollars after the stock market crash in 1929. After having little regulation of the economy during the 1920s, the American people were in desperate need of government assistance. Current President Hoover followed his conservative approach that he had used throughout his te

Furthermore, Roosevelt proposed many administrations to help unemployed Americans find work again. One of the most important new administrations was the Public Works Administration directed by Harold Ickes. The PWA employed thousands of workers to build bridges, hospitals, dams, and roads. The Civilian Conservation Corps employed young men in there twenties to live in work camps to build roads and bridges. The CCC ordered that the majority of the money made by the men had to be sent home to their families to pay the bills. One project of the New Deal that is still running today is the Tennessee Valley Authority. The TVA employed thousands of workers in the poverty-stricken Tennessee Valley to build roads, bridges, dams, and manufacture fertilizer as well as distribute electricity to homes in bordering states. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration loaned money to state and local governments that operated soup kitchens. The National Recovery Administration was formed in 1933 to help business in need of financial assistance. The NRA helped businesses establish wages for workers, set work hours, and set prices for finished products. Similar to the NRA was the creation of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, which encouraged farmers to cut production of crops in return for government owned land. However, the Supreme Court later declared the NRA and the AAA unconstitutional for aiding one business over another and subsidizing land in the Midwest.

To being with, Herbert Hoover and the majority of the American people thought that the depression would pass in a short period of time. The United States had a few depressions during the 1800s and only two of them lasted longer than a year. However, this depression would last from October of 1929 to the entrance of World War II by the United States in 1941. President Hoover advised business not to cut wages or lay off workers and to continue business as usual. At the beginning of the crash, Hoover chose not to utilize the federal government and felt that it was the duty of the state and local governments to end the depression. But when the American depression affected European economies, Hoover had no choice but to take some drastic reform. His costliest mistake was the introduction of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930. This raised the tariff rates on foreign goods to the highest point in American history. However, Europ

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