New Deal Repercussions for America's Public and Private Sectors
Indisputably, the Great Depression, which began with October 29, 1929 stock market crash and created a need for the subsequent extensive New Deal legislation of the 1930's, changed America's public and private sectors, and American citizens' expectations of their government, for the rest of the 20th century and beyond. Thus New Deal legislation and programs greatly altered the existing relationship between American citizens and their government, as well as between public and private sectors of American life. Earlier, (and throughout U.S. history up to this point) the United States government had been far more limited, in its ability to shape economic and social policies, programs, and changes. However, the great Depression and the subsequent New Deal programs, policies, and social changes that sprang from it, helped create powerful labor unions; and ushered in farm subsidies; and government-sponsored projects like the WPA and the TVA. During the dozen or so years between the
Average men and women could no longer even feed their families or secure anymore the basic necessities of life. Such widespread national misery led to FDR's election, by a landslide, in 1932, and to Hoover's dramatic defeat. Almost immediately, Roosevelt, as the new President, began pushing federal government toward a new, far more interventionist role. Roosevelt urged Congress to quickly pass the Emergency Banking Relief Act that would re-stabilize tottering U.S. banks. On March 9, 1933, it did so. That, however, was a mere prelude to Roosevelt's extensive New Deal legislation that slowly pulled the country out of the depression in the years leading up to World War II. Americans as a whole first began to lose faith in their government when, after the October 29, 1929 stock market crash, then-President Herbert Hoover blithely referred to the crash as "a passing incident in our national lives"("The Great Depression"). Hoover's individualistic bent and 'trickle down' econo
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