Describe How The New Deal Happened

How the new deal happened? Let’s just say the US has just plunged into the worst depression in its history and you are the president of those saying the US what do you do. Well, if your name is Herbert Hoover, then you would say something about a less fair individualism and do nothing and you’re also going to be remembered for being wrong. So lets get ahead a few years and say now you’re Franklin Roosevelt. You have a much better idea, which you call a New Deal. This program ran from 1933-1935 and broke down into 3 goal relief recovery and reform. It all started what became known as the first 100 days, during which congress passed a unprecedented amount of legislation. First was banking holiday for two days, every bank across the country was

These two measures were designed to restore American confidence in the banking systems, also aimed at restoring confidence where FDR’s fireside chats, which she spoke weekly to the American people through the radio in a reassuring voice and told them what was going on. More practical was the so called “alphabet soup” of new government agencies that sprang up in no particular order. There was the public works administration, which paid people to rebuild roads. The Civilian Conservation Corps, which paid younger people to plant trees. The Tennessee Valley Authority, which built hydroelectric dams in Tennessee. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration, which helped farmers by paying them not to farm and the National Recovery Administration, which placed productive regulation on industry. Just to name a few, but it turned out, all that wasn’t enough. Roosevelt then launched The Second New Deal, which ran from 1935-1938. It was basically more of the same, adding work progress Administrations for Artists and the Social Security Act, for old and out of work people to the “alphabet soup”. So did it work? In a word, kind of, FDR did