ipl-logo

The Great Depression: Was The New Deal A Success?

1039 Words5 Pages

During the years of the Great Depression, many suffered through the loss of jobs, the lack of food, and many other things. On October, 1929, the US stock market crashed causing the country to plunge into the Great Depression. It lasted from 1929 to 1941. The people blamed President Hoover for the Great Depression. Then, in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President. The New Deal was passed by FDR to fight against the Great Depression and it lasted from 1933 to 1935. The question, “Was the New Deal a total success?” is a question that is still not definitely answered. In other words, “Did the New Deal accomplish what it was intended to do?” Several documents have been considered during research and all of them are credible. After …show more content…

In a speech by Ellen S. Woodward, Assistant Administrator of the Works Progress Administration, it states that, “One million undernourished children have benefited by the Works Progress Administration’s school lunch program” (Woodward 4). This shows that the New Deal provided children with food due to the WPA. In the document, it also states, “For many children, who are required to leave home early in the morning and travel long distances after school hours to reach their homes, the WPA lunch constitutes the only hot meal of the day…” (Woodward 4). This shows that many children did not get hot food without the WPA. However, some believe that it did not help enough and that the conditions were still horrible. The first reason is because there was still a lack of food despite the efforts of the WPA. In 1939, in an interview with George Dobbin, a 67 year old cotton mill worker, he states that, “.... even when there wasn’t much to eat in our homes” (Dobbin 3). This shows that there was not much food even with the New Deal’s efforts. The next reason was that people were still suffering. In a song called “No Depression in Heaven” by The Carter Family, it states, “No orphan children crying for bread; No weeping widows toil or struggle; No shrouds, no coffins, and no dead” (The Carter Family 6). The first line is talking about the hunger during the Great Depression. The second line is talking about the sadness and hardships. The third line is talking about the death during the Great Depression. Even though there is a bad side, the New Deal was still a success because it gave food to children in

Show More
Related
225 Words | 1 Pages

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

Read More
60 Words | 1 Pages

The New Deal did not benefited the U.S.in the long term. The New Deal was created between 1933 and 1938 by Franklin Roosevelt. He created the New Deal for people that were unemployed. The New Deal provided old-age insurances and unemployment benefits. It was also was supposed to help the families that dependent children and for people that were disabled.

Read More
222 Words | 1 Pages

Economically, the New Deal assisted the United States by providing jobs. Many Americans were poor during the Great Depression (Document 1). These individuals lived in Hoovervilles, or shantytowns, and struggled to find fresh produce. Due to a lack of income, most of these individuals had to eat food thrown out by greengrocers. However, these circumstances were even worse for individuals who farmed (Document 6).

Read More
949 Words | 4 Pages

In the 1930’s a group of government programs and policies were established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, they were created with the intention to help the American people during The Great Depression. The Great Depression was a time were many banks failed, many businesses and factories went bankrupt, and millions of Americans are out of work, homeless, and hungry. Most New Deal programs gave American citizens economic relief, chances for employment and helped for the general good. The New Deal’s intention was to help Americans during these troubling times filled with economic uncertainty, and in that aspect, it was a success. After the New Deal was implemented, unemployment rates were gradually lowered.

Read More
1002 Words | 5 Pages

The Great Depression started in 1929 when the stock market crashed. The banks didn’t have enough money to give. President Hoover was a bad president and then when FDR took over he wanted to change it. Hoover did one thing by making the Hoover Dam and saving money by making water into electricity. The Great Depression was the worst bankruptcy in America's history.

Read More
812 Words | 4 Pages

The Great Depression was a period of immense suffering, in which the worst economic downturn in history was recorded. The unemployment rate was at an all time high, the dust bowl swept across the great plains and America was plain out downtrodden. The Great depression occurred in 1929, a year after president Herbert Hoover was elected. Hoover a conservative, was elected over Al Smith during a prosperous America, but little he did he no the great nation was about to head southward into poverty. Hoover embodied many ideals, which further postponed the collapse of the great depression, these ideals were voluntary cooperation, rugged individualism, and the natural cycles of economy.

Read More
590 Words | 3 Pages

Now some may saw that this New Deal that President Franklin D. Roosevelt made take place was a failure , however it was a success for many reasons. The two that greatly bettered the people the most was because of the Fireside Chats that President Roosevelt gave and because of the hot lunches that he made possible for schoolchildren suffering from not being healthy.

Read More
277 Words | 2 Pages

The New Deal helped many Americans out of poverty and malnourishment. According to Harry Hopkins, he believes “those days [of poverty and malnourishment] are over in America”(Document 2). Hopkins is referring to the many poor, helpless people in America during that time. Auspiciously, FDR helped

Read More
1058 Words | 5 Pages

Although the New Deal sounded like it would relieve America from the Depression, it barely changed the lives of

Read More
827 Words | 4 Pages

The Great Depression plunged the U.S Economy into an entirely new world of struggle and survival. The Wall Street Market Crash in October of 1929 marked the start of a twelve year battle between the U.S Economy and the U.S citizens. At the start of the Depression Herbert Hoover was the president, although he gave forth some effort, for example the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, he was not the correct man to lead the country to recovery. In 1933, Hoover was voted out of the office and Franklin Delano Roosevelt took over presidency. Roosevelt brought with him this series of programs, called The New Deal.

Read More
529 Words | 3 Pages

The New Deal is made up of several programs, financial solutions, and policies led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to provide alleviation to millions of Americans during the Great Depression. There were downfalls when it came to not stopping discrimination towards black people; however, it was a success when it came to helping undernourished children by providing hot meals and giving farmers and homeowners mortgage distress. A success in the New Deal was when qualified women workers prepared warm food for underprivileged/undernourished children through the WPA’s school lunch program. WPA, Works Progress Administration, were helping these children, “One million undernourished children benefited from the Works Progress Administration’s school lunch program. In the past year

Read More
520 Words | 3 Pages

Was the New Deal successful or unsuccessful for the United States of America? Overall the New Deal had a more positive impact the negative impact. The New Deal created many new opportunities and did many great things for America. There are many reasons to help contribute to the fact that the New Deal was successful.

Read More
940 Words | 4 Pages

How Successful was Franklin. D Roosevelt’s New Deal? What is known to us all is that the Great Depression of 1929 was one of the worst time periods in American history. Although the laissez-faire capitalism brought the economic prosperity, earnings for farmers and industrial workers fell.

Read More
847 Words | 4 Pages

“The WPA taught 400,000 African American women and men to read and write” (Katz). This is a freedom from the effect of the Great Depression because now more African Americans can read and write, unlike when the Great Depression was happening. Again, this is a positive effect of the New Deal because now that these African American men and women can read and write, and they can now get a jobs. The Roosevelt Administration set up the Resettlement Administration to help poor farmers relocate to marginal lands by providing loans (“New Deal”). First, this is a positive effect of the New Deal because it helped poor farmers move to better land to grow better produce to make up for the lost from the Great Depression.

Read More
326 Words | 2 Pages

The New Deal was mostly a success as it was partially responsible for ending the depression by suppling jobs instead of handouts. The New Deal was a failure because Roosevelt did not really achieve his aim of getting Americans back to work. On the other hand The New Deal did have its successes. The New Deal created millions of jobs. This suggests to us that The New Deal was a success because by introducing more jobs people had more money to spend.

Read More

More about The Great Depression: Was The New Deal A Success?

Related Topics

Open Document