The New Deal2
All countries and civilizations throughout history have been run with some form of government or leadership. Whether the governing body is ruled by a tyrant, monarchy, democracy, or even a tsar, the body has certain responsibilities and jobs. In any given country, the role of the government varies according to the state of the country and the desires of the people in it. During different time periods in American history, the people have expected different things from their government according to the situation. Between the 1920's and 1930's, our nation's perceptions of the role of government, its powers, and responsibilities went from wanting the government to keep out of business and the economy to seeking change and governmental actions. With the inauguration of Warren G. Harding, the 1920's were staged to be a "Return to Normalcy." Between the ruling of Harding and Calvin "Cool Cal" Coolidge, America founds its way back to regularity. The country prospered from new inventions and technology along side with the laissez-faire styles of governing brought by Harding and Coolidge; "... the 1920's presidents viewed the role of government as a passive servant of business rather than as an active regulator..."# President Coolidge
FDR succeeded in taking action right away with his 'Bank Holiday.' This holiday was essentially pointless. One congressman protested: "The President drove the money changers out of the Capitol on March 4- and they were all back on the ninth." However, the purpose of this holiday was to merely show the people that actions were being taken by the government. FDR's New Deal had three main goals; relief, recovery, and reform, and in the first one-hundred days of his presidency he passed a flurry of legislation. Relief consisted of allotting money and jobs to people. Recovery was literally the phase of recuperating the economy. And lastly, reform was the changes made to the economic and business system to ensure that such a cosmic depression could never happen again. One key to the accomplishment of FDR was that he surrounded himself with the best of the best. He created a 'brains trust' which included Hugo Black, Harold Ickes, Raymond Moley, and Harry Hopkins. Surrounded by this group of intelligent people, FDR was triumphant in overcoming America's great depression. "The heart of his speech was a promise to fight the depression with a bold program, to do whatever was necessary to restore prosperity. All countries need some sort of leadership. More specifically, America had gone through a lot of changes between the 1920's and the 1930's, and the Ameri
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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