The Second New Deal And The Great Depression

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The United States stock market crashed on October 29, 1929 a day now known as black Tuesday. The stock market prior to this has been going up for year, but now its plummeted down. This set the United States in to the Great Depression. The President Herbert Hoover during this time urged patience, but American didn’t need patience they needed change. In 1933 when President Franklin Roosevelt went into office he was campaigning with the idea of the “New Deal”. Contrary to what many think this program along with the “Second New Deal”, did not bring the United States out of depression but it did help. The “New Deal” helped within the first 100 days he was in office but still there was many starving on the street. He came up with the “Second New