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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 'No Depression In Heaven'

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Imagine that you have just been elected the president of your country. This country has experienced an economic collapse and is suffering from the effects. Citizens that once had a bright future of investments and wealth are now begging on the streets. Children with gaunt cheeks helplessly starve in alleyways. 20% of the labor force in your country are unemployed (Smiley 5). You built your campaign on the promise that you will fix this depression in the country. So what do you do? This is the position that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was put in when he was inaugurated into the office of President in March of 1933 (Dallek et al.786). His solution for the Great Depression that had spread throughout America was the New Deal. This was a …show more content…

President Roosevelt did his best to regain the wealth of the nation, but his best efforts were not enough. Unemployment was still a common dilemma and the economy was barely trudging along. Often in history, we can tell the effect something has from societal trends. An example of this is a song that came out in 1936 named “No Depression in Heaven.” This song represents the death, starvation, and horrible reality of the Great Depression. It was released 1936, three years after the New Deal was established and instituted throughout the United States. “No Depression in Heaven” shows that people are still discouraged and desperate (The Carter Family 6). Through this evidence, it is clear that there was not that much of an effect on the economy and people of the United States. Unemployment statistics show that unemployment rates went down between 1932-1941 (Smiley 5). This can suggest that the New Deal did help the economy. However, unemployment rates decreased very gradually and took 9 years of suffering to get down to a manageable amount of unemployment in the labor force. America needed a program that acted fast and would help them efficiently and quickly, and the New Deal just did not meet

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Sadly, the New Deal didn’t take everyone out of the Great Depression, which was a failure since everyone expected that it would. The people had not made a substantial recovery from the deep depression of the early thirties. This shows that the unemployment was still very high (Document 6). The Social Security Programs and

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