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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Conflicting Views Of The New Deal

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“Conflicting Views of the New Deal”
The Great Depression was an era of economic instability that affected the whole world. The Great Depression led to high unemployment, the stock market crashed, farming prices descended dramatically, and the public demanded help from the government. In the viewpoint of the citizens, Herbert Hoover’s inability to act let to the crisis. The New Deal was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to save the economy. He believed that a more centralized government leveled the corporation’s power and let to a fair system where the common people could benefit from the nation’s wealth. Roosevelt’s view in the role of the federal government changed the way the president usually behaved. After the New Deal the liberals became in favor of a progressive movement to help the people with more influence from the president, instead of the laissez faire idea common in the past. The New Deal although it didn’t restore the nation’s economy, it did make some crucial changes that are still active today like the freedom of workers to unionize, …show more content…

Roosevelt addresses the people by giving a speech. During his speech he contrasted the two parties. In one side there was the republican party. Herbert Hoover as the rest of the republicans believed that government intervention was not the answer to the depression. And in the other side Franklin Roosevelt felt that the Democratic party had to be of “liberal thought” and open for change in the involvement of the government to resolve the economic conditions faced. Roosevelt viewed the Republicans as a party working for the few while ignoring the poor. He strongly attacked the nonreactive republican government and blamed them for the depression. Although there is no proof that the republican party was to blame for the depression, to the people, the fact that the republican president was in charge at that time of the economic collapse gave them reason to inculpate Herbert

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