Franklin D. Roosevelt: The New Deal For American People

The New Deal

"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people,” said Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his acceptance speech in the summer of 1932. The new deal that Roosevelt had promised the American people took action right after his inauguration in March 1933. The first days of Roosevelt's “New deal” was mainly banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs. Later a second new deal came about and it included union protection programs, social security acts, and programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers. The New Deal had 3 Major goals and achievements; to stabilize the economy, Provide Jobs, and more public works/creations. “The New Deal included 47 federal programs

Since the PWA built hospitals, schools, and building/offices for companies, it allowed others without jobs to have a job. Before the PWA had come into play “one in four Americans was out of work by 1933” (History.com). A lot of families were suffering and needed help. In the first year of the New Deal, the Public Works Administration put thousands of Americans to work on various construction projects around the country, and they ended up building some of the most recognizable landmarks in the United States that are still in use today, like Hoover dam. The works programs reduced unemployment, Americans would no longer need government relief, but instead they would work on the various construction projects and earn a fair paycheck. With this paycheck, workers would/could spend their money, thus helping other businesses or providing for their families, as the PWA went, the economy as a whole grew. Though the PWA helped a major amount of unemployed people, it was simply not enough to put “a recognizable dent” in the rate

Others, like Louisiana politician Huey Long, said it didn't do enough for the poor” (Amadeo). “So then the government launched The second new deal in 1935 due to many critics” (History.com ). “The main goal of The second New deal was social justice” (Amadeo). Reform was declared to be inseparable from recovery. The central objective was to provide security to the citizens who were unhappy with the stricken economy and overwhelmed by the effects of the Great Depression. “The federal government provided security and housing for the poor, elders, sick, and disabled and they created multiple federal programs to help the lower class” (Amadeo). For example the Housing Act of 1934-37, it provided a large sum of money to be paid from the U.S. government to a local public housing agencies to help improve the living conditions for the lower-income families. Overall the New Deal was a set of tons and tons of Federal Programs to not only help the higher and middle class but also the lower class. It was a fair system. It also had an impact on Southern