Consequences Of The New Deal And The Great Depression

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Imagine you are finding it hard to sleep at night. You are having nightmares. Before going to bed, you make sure that the doors and windows of your room are securely and tightly shut. But wait! You don’t have any windows or doors at the moment. Because you are having difficulties with your job and financial savings. There are red skies at night, and the light gave notice to the peeling paint on the walls. You are having to struggle and ach in pain as you endeavor your way out of work. You are drenched in sweat, your knuckles are white, and your body heats up as you carry heavy boxes that could strain your muscles. Hunger clings to your stomach. You feel as if a pit had opened up inside you. When you arrive home, you swing the refrigerator …show more content…

For example, according to The New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt was elected as president. “His first act as president was to declare a four-day bank holiday, during which time Congress drafted the Emergency Banking Bill of 1933, which stabilized the banking system and restored the public’s faith in banking industry by putting the federal government behind it.” Roosevelt has gained Americas trust and saved the lives of millions of people from having to act upon the consequences of bankruptcy. Also, according to The New Deal, “the Civil Conservation Corps was one of the New Deal’s most successful programs. It addressed the pressing problem of unemployment by sending 3 million men from age 17 to 23 to the nations’ forests work.They were all volunteers and were paid $30 a month.” This new solution would help of those in need of health, and benefit the human body from having a near-death experience without medicine. Additionally, according to Debts, “that Dad sold iron cords door to door, ‘ worked a day in the hay,’ bought a horse to break gardens, rented and extra lot for a garden on the shares, picked peaches, raised sweet potato slips, traded and occasional dazen of eggs at the grocery, hung wallpaper, ‘painted Don Albright’s house for $5’, picked up a day or two’s work at the strip mines, [and worked much more].” Dad worked hard every day to give his family food and shelter. For most people not even two jobs is enough to feed their families because they get paid a small amount each