The New Deal1

A detailed Summary of The New Deal1

The New Deal picked people up when the Great Depression sent them down. It restored faith in the American people. The New Deal helped bring businesses and unemployment from out of the cellar. It got the economy back on its feet after it looked like nothing could help. All this was possible because of one man. Why did they put so much faith into one person? Even though the New Deal was a great success, why did they expect this one person to save them? You can't put your future into the hands of one person. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the man who saw this challenge and overcame it with great success. Even thought his great plan had there ups and downs, to many of the American people he wasn't just another President, he was a hero.

The Great Depression was a rough time for all the American people. It sent many banks, farms, and business to close. This caused people to loose there jobs and others to reduce their salary. This was a dark time for the people and they started loosing faith. The people put their hopes on Herbert Hoover who told the people that the Great Depression was coming to an end. The fact of the matter was the it was only in its prime. Hoover promised the American people many things that he knew tha

The National Assocation for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP), the National Urban League, and the National Negro Congress protested because blacks were being denied work relief benefits. The WPA helped the African Americans by trying to end discrimmination in the work relief programs. In the late 1930's the WPA acieved at having over 1 million blacks working for them. In favor for this the African Americans left the Republican Parties and voted for Roosevelt. By 1945 many of the African American's working at federal jobs just about tripled the amount working in 1933. For the Mexicans leaving there country and entering America with a plan to good jobs, it was hard. During the Depression President Hoover deported Mexicans so that he could make more room for American citizens in the work place. In the early 1930's, Mexican immigrants were being deported by the thousands. After World War II, however, the United States urged many federal and local businesses to hire Mexican workers. Native American polpulation was at a low and many of them were landless. The New Deal didn't have a real great effect on Indians. Even with little success for the Native Americans it was a huge failure when many of them were sent to World War II and more than half never returned.

t could raise hope in people, but he never took action. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in 1933, how did the people know that Roosevelt wasn't just another President that would not take any action.

The reason why businesses where having a great deal of problems is because many companies went against the National Industrial Recovery Act(NRA) of 1933. The NRA stated that any company asking for help from the NRA would have to let their workers form unions. This would create the National Labor Relations Board that helped enforce the right of the workers. The automotive and steel workers were demanding higher wages and benefits at the time. Since this happened in the midst of the Great Depression, many of these workers had no choice but to go on strike because companies could not afford to meet with the workers demands. The automotive strikers had the greatest success and they had Roosevelt and the New Deal to thank. In 1937, the workers decided to start these sit - down strikes. They would go to work just to sit down and observe their work place. Roosevelt and his New Deal coalition heard of this and instead of helping the companies by sending in police to break up the strike, they did nothing. This forced the automotive companies to come

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