Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal With The Great Depression

The Great Depression was a very hard time for our country. Once the stock market crashed everything began to go wrong after that. Many people lost their money and became bankrupt. Then this poverty made it so people couldn’t find jobs to feed their family. Unemployment became a major problem. Another problem that was happening during this time was the banking crisis. Many banks were in panic and had no money to give to many people who wanted it. Due to this many banks shut down. There were more problems involved with the great Depression as well. At this time, the current president, Herbert Hoover did barely anything to try to fix these problems. By the next election, Franklin D. Roosevelt(FDR) came in with a New Deal that would be used to

One problem that the New Deal fixed was unemployment. Many people in every part of the country were unemployed. They had no job to be able to feed their families. Some had no place to live so they lived in Hoovervilles, places where people made shacks and homes and lived together. Many kids thought of themselves as a burden to their parents. So these kids decided to go live on the rails and fend for themselves so their parents didn’t have to struggle to feed them as well as themselves. All these problems are due to unemployment. President Roosevelt saw this problem and knew it had to fixed. He knew that to end the Great Depression the U.S. had to tackle unemployment. He set up many programs and made acts to help fix this problem.One program Franklin D. Roosevelt set up to help unemployment was the Civilian Conservation Corp(CCC). The CCC gave men jobs to work on building dams and bridges and planting trees. The CCC gave young men a dollar each day and it gave them three free meals and a place to live. Another organization made from

Many people were not able to get there money from the banks before they all started failing. This caused many people to lose their homes and farms so they were left homeless with no home and not much food. Many banks all around the country closed causing many people from all over the country to lose their money and homes. Franklin D. Roosevelt knew this problem had to be taken care of to end the Great Depression. He found a way to to be able to fix the banking crisis. First of all FDR set up the Emergency Banking Act. This act helped banks get affairs in order. After this FDR said this to not make people panic.He said over the radio that he was going to order a national bank holiday. The holiday allowed the government to provide sound banks enough money to meet the demand. After a little while the government reopened only banks that were financially sound. At first banks were only opened in twelve cities. Then eventually Two-hundred-fifty more banks opened.The banks in smaller places would only open when the government deemed them safe, no matter how long it takes. Once the banks opened again many people were skeptical about them, but FDR reassured them that their money was safer in banks than under their mattress. FDR was a man who wasn’t only thinking about the present but about the future as well. He set up the FDIC that ensures that people will be able to get their money from the banks no matter