New Deal was the plan introduced by President Roosevelt during the great depression. It had some powerful and important accomplishments in American history indeed. It put people back to work, saved capitalism, restored faith in the American economic system and at the same time, it built a sense of hope in the American people. The stock market crashed and factories shut down and banks failed. Then-President Roosevelt introduced many programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), the Farm Security Administration (FSA), the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA), and the Social Security Administration (SSA). Which helps America’s economy better.
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My topic entry source is
History.com Editors. “New Deal.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 29 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/great-depression/new-deal.
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The article “Second Deal” by History.com editors described the achievements and accomplishments of America’s economy during Franklin Roosevelt’s era. According to this article, New Deal projects and programs, such as the CCC, the WPA, the TVA, the SEC, and other new deals were introduced by FDR, and how these programs helped America to build up its economic system back to where it was. FDR was newly appointed as the president during the Great Depression. He gave a speech to his public which afterward gave people confidence and courage. He told people to stop withdrawing money from banks and after 3 days, told them to put back whatever they’d saved during these days back to the banks. He enabled the Federal Government to built dams along Tennessee rivers to protect them from flooding as well as giving payments to the farmers. Provided Jobs to the unemployed and they weren’t allowed to compete with private industry, so they focused on building things like post offices, bridges, schools, highways, and parks. Also gave work to artists, writers, theater directors, and musicians. African Americans and women entered the workforce. They shared a powerful belief that helping their government means helping their families, the economy, and the nation.
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I agree with this article because this technique actually helped America and had impacted its economy by employing more than 8 million Americans by giving them different kinds of jobs. He introduced many programs so he could take his country out of crises. The Second New Deal was focused on economic recovery as I’ve said before. It ensured the public that they would be protected against unemployment and poverty. FDR introduced the Works Progress Administration (WPA), giving millions of Americans jobs constructing bridges, pools, stadiums, roads, and such. It also sent out many artists to paint buildings and paint murals. The Social Security Act (SSA) was also one of the programs that ensured unemployment insurance, aid to the elderly and disabled, and families. It provided health coverage and income assistance too to poorly. FDR also helped farmers and other workers by the Agricultural Adjustment Act(AAA) helped to raise crop prices by lowering production.
As he was doing all this, he got a lot of hate and contravention from his opponents and some conservative justices that because of this depression, America was facing trouble regarding public relations with other countries. And that excuse gave his opponents to take a stand against him, which led the country’s economy slipped one more time and country went into its recession time but later on Japan bombed pearl harbor which led America to entered WW2 and that’s how WW2 helped the USA to get out of that depression and as well as winning the war. The New Deal brought many women into government enforcement that they never expected. Women having their voices heard which happened just because of FDR. However, in other areas, women were unsuccessful. They were able to do men’s jobs because at that time all men went to serve their country for WW2 and women were used to do their Household and office working that’s how They got independent. When the banking system was at its peak to crush, FDR immediately went to action. FDR closed all banks temporarily and he told everyone not to withdraw any kind of money instead of saving them. FDR also closed all the stock markets, no one was allowed to buy or sell anything, if someone did then they would be responsible for the frauds. As he was doing that, introduced insurance called “The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation” (FDIC) which led to saved everyone’s deposits. So in the end, it shows that this article is right about whatever happened in the past and how FDR came over it with the help of his people ad his brilliantness.
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“They created a brand-new if tenuous, political coalition that included white working people, African Americans cans, and left-wing intellectuals. More women entered the workforce as Roosevelt expanded the number of secretarial roles in government. These groups rarely shared the same interests – at least, they rarely thought they did – but they did share a powerful belief that an interventionist government was good for their families, the economy and the nation”
“On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War II The war effort stimulated American industry and, as a result, effectively ended the Great Depression”
“Still, the Great Depression dragged on. Workers grew more militant: In December 1936, for example, the United Auto Worker strike at a GM plant in Flint, Michigan lasted for 44 days and spread to some 150,000 autoworkers in 35 cities”.
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Powell, Jim. “How FDR’s New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People.” Cato Institute, 3 Apr. 2020, www.cato.org/publications/commentary/how-fdrs-new-deal-harmed-millions-poor-people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eTJ8bu137c.
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The second source which is the article “How FDR’s New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People” by Jim Powell discussed the problems and failings that poor communities faced during this period of time. Common people were actual victims of that situation. During this new deal program, taxes got so high to be paid. FDR put taxes on every little thing that didn’t matter was it a cigarette, beers, or even candy. They all taxes were paying mostly by middle-class people and the poor. Taxes were exceeding their limits and were getting high day by day and people were losing their savings because it was all going to the taxes. During world war 2, it got more hard for the public to spend on themselves. Because it all went to the government. New Deal taxes were the major reason for unemployment because whatever people earned, it all went to taxes and if someone had a business that meant, they’d got to pay high taxes and remained with less money for growth and jobs. So that was one of the reasons, they didn’t really hire any for more jobs. The third article is a YouTube video about Green New Deal that’s related to the program in the past. This video is talking about how the green new deal is setting up for the Public for more jobs and democrats are the ones who proposed this idea to congress which like always republicans are opposed off. In this green deal, democrats proposed the idea of giving more jobs to people and increase worker rights. Republicans are not really happy and criticized it and try to mislead civilians by saying that it’s more like Socialism rather than beneficial. Mr. McConnell said that he and his party will bring this issue to the Senate floor that how risking it could be. Anchors more said that this project asks for a lot of money, probably affects climate changes, and needs more buildings/space for this infrastructure. They added more than democrats need to be bold about it and scream the same way Mr. Trump and his party does when they have something big for congress to be approved.
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This topic is really complicated because everyone has their opinion like agree or disagree and as this article is stating a true point about this historical event and yes I agree with the author because everything has its two sides good and bad. But it’s true that these programs indeed helped its country. However, as I said that something went bad with this deal. And those got discussed in this article by Jim Powell. Yes, poor people were the actual target of this program. Because they had to paid taxes. At first, obviously, it was good but it got affected after seen that a lot of people had lost their jobs, high taxes, and unionization. President Roosevelt and his cabinet never really had a master plan but a lot of programs and laws that just imposed on the public which later created big problems. During this period of time. mostly white people were working in steel mills, plants, and other Industrial workshops and didn’t allow other races to entered and work with them which caused a big problem for the country in the way of unemployment. They just work with people like them and helped people like them. The middle-class public couldn’t really be saved for themselves because whatever they’d earned, had to go in taxes. That’s why most corporations got scared to hire people because of high wages and less production. National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) made people paid more taxes than their actual product made and Agricultural Adjustment Act( AAA) forced Americans to pay more for food, In other words, pay tax. As I talked about in my first source that how FDR signed a bill from Congress to allowed the federal government to made dams along the Tennessee river but it flooded very badly and hurt thousands of people. African Americans who were sharecroppers, didn’t own property and got no compensation from its state government. In these New Deal programs, $1.6 billion to $5.3 billion federal taxes were paid between 1933 and 1940. The government mostly cared about the west and east side of its country but they didn’t really care about the south where they (democrats) won. Social Security Act put taxes on payrolls made it more expensive for employers to hire people, which discouraged hiring. As we all aware of these programs that how they were very hurtful like National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), reduced the production and made wages were higher than normal market levels that pushed back employers to hire new people and because of this act, more than 500,000 African Americans lost their jobs. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) harmed African American farmer tenants because the government reduced the production. These didn’t increase the number of jobs in the economy, because the money spent on New Deal projects came mostly from taxpayers who had less money to spend on their daily basic needs.
The third source (video) is kind of similar to my second article because in the second it says that how taxes harmed poor people, basically money was the reason and same with the YouTube green new deal video that, for this program, the government need to have a lot of money. I don’t think it’s going to harm the country’s economy because, in the end, it’ll be beneficial for its own country, people and “This deal is a statement of values and statement of principles”. Republicans no doubt got a good chance to shade democrats because of what happened a decade ago when democrats had a bill to pass but they got a lot of issues with Pelosi (the speaker at that time) didn’t agree on and the same is happening now that democrats and activists want the thing to happen fast and they don’t really know that congress works step by step, they just want it to happen asap. And as we all know how our president loves to misinterpret “weather” into climate. Some Republican party Senate’s know climate has been changing and how it’s effecting Miami and Colorado but they never did anything for that and yet they think that green deal could be affected. I’ll second what anchors said that when trump wants to do something, he does for example like the travel ban, people thought that this is really ridiculous idea but he did he became president. When he wanted to build a million-dollar wall, he asked for huge money same as the thing democrats have to do something like this and be bold To people.
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“New Deal taxes were major job destroyers during the 1930s, prolonging unemployment that averaged 17%. Higher business taxes meant that employers had less money for growth and jobs.”
“His National Industrial Recovery Act forced consumers to pay above-market prices for goods and services, and the Agricultural Adjustment Act forced Americans to pay more for food. Moreover.”
“Excise taxes, personal income taxes, inheritance taxes, corporate income taxes, holding company taxes and so-called “excess profits” taxes all went up.”
In conclusion, after doing all my research and analysis, I came across that the new deal was a good plan to put the country’s economy back to its place. Indeed it had hardships but they weren’t really affected and the major goal was accomplished. Stock markets got crashed and the USA’s economy went into crisis and started the Great Depression. According to some scholars, that how this wasn’t really a great idea, after doing all my research and analysis, I came across that over the new deal was a good plan to put the country’s economy back to its place. Indeed it had hardships but they weren’t really affected and the major goal was accomplished. Some people say that the Great Depression ended didn’t really end with this program, In fact, world war 2 did. And I totally agree but as we all know that WW 2 happened during that time and that really pushed America back to work. but as per my research. Roosevelt displayed confident, courageous, and passionate leadership, and hold opportunities to shape a reform for his country. His confident speech/attitude inspired confidence, and his courage inspired courage. For this, he is ranked among the greatest presidents of all time and that’s why he becomes president four times. His New Deal led to economic relief, recovery, and reform, and repaired the foundation of the economy which allowed the economic boost of WWII to restore it to normal. The New Deal actually was the reason everyone got to vote for the presidential election. In the end, I want to ask you all that, did you find these programs efficient for improving the economy? Was the New Deal effective at all in helping people?
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