What was Roosevelt's New Deal?

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What was Roosevelt's New Deal?

Answer 1

The New Deal was the platform that Roosevelt used to shelter his programs to bring the US out of the Great Depression.   This endeavor was based mostly on the economic philosophy of John Maynard Keynes.  

The picture of the US Great Depression in the 1930's:

What was happening was that the stock market and gold market was going berserk, which was the basis of American money.   Prices were going down for everything.  Money was becoming very scarce.  As prices dropped, it became difficult to produce anything.  The Depression was a spiraling mess.  

Unemployment was not in good shape, and the US was mostly a rural country.  The world was embracing industry.  The Great Depression also coincided with one of the worst agricultural disasters in the US history, known as the dustbowl.  Farmlands of the southwest lost topsoil and there was severe drought.  

Europe:  Was booming.   Europe was rebuilding after WWII, and industrializing at a rapid rate.  Germany was building one of the largest military force in the world, and was developing major advances in technology and applying to military ends, such as tanks, submarines and bombs.  

Reform:  

FDR did some very important and lasting measures in economic reform.  1.  The federal reserve was created and US money was no longer held by the gold standard.  2.  Some basic reforms were put into place for the stock market and the SEC was established.  3.  Alcohol was re-legalized.  This put breweries and distilleries, bars and restaurants across the nation back into "above" board business and helped to create tax revenues for states and municipalities.  4.  Federal Income tax was created, as was the IRS.   5.  Social Security Administration as well as the tax that supports it, FICA was put into place.

Getting the Nation to work:

The WPA or Works Progress Administration was the largest of the employment projects.  This entity hired employees in every state, and built streets, roads, highways, bridges, public buildings and public utilities.  The first federal highways were a direct result of the WPA.   Please don't forget that cars were still new to the USA.  The WPA hired millions of people, and also helped distribute basic goods to school children and populations in small towns.

The CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps was very popular.  It's labor focused mostly on rural areas as well as development of federal lands such as national forests.  There was some logging done, but mostly it was building roads, basic infrastructure for cabins, trails, building remote cabins (for people doing deep hiking these are temporary dwellings for anyone), as well as other public works projects.  One of the most famous is Red Rocks Ampitheatre which is still one the US's most popular concert locations).   The CCC also built playgrounds, baseball parks, schools, school playgrounds and recreation facilities across the US.  The CCC also put out forest fires.

WPA Cultural component

The WPA hired artists.  Murals were painted and chiseled in and on federal and state buildings.  Writers were hired to write plays.  Historians were hired to research and write histories.  Anthropologists recorded cultural stories and histories of people from all over the US.

Result:

We ended up with a complete highway and later freeway system and some of the most respected architecture in the world.

The world center of art shifted from Europe to the US as a result of the cultural works division of the WPA.  Folklife in the US was recognized for the first time, and today is still valued.  The NEH and the NEA are two federal administrations that are a result of that effort.

Elderly and disabled people have a small pension based on a lifetime of work, and therefore will not starve to death.

Almost every town in the US has a baseball park, football stadium and a basketball court.  Sports in the US excelled in these areas more than even track and field.  

The New Deal was about

1. Providing opportunities to work for a fair wage.

2. Building infrastructure in the US in order to stimulate the economy (which it did).

3. Helping modernize the country technologically

4. Recognizing the importance of cultural depth of the US

Answer 2

It was a set of reforms and relief programs meant to rebuild the U.S. economy and help the countless people who were

suffering during the Great Depression. It led to the creation

of the welfare state.

Answer 3

a piece of c**p...ahahaha..it was to bring reform. IT gave jobs to the jobless (like artists), tried to help the economy, and basically hardly n e of the countless articles of it actually worked or stayed (the only one i can remember that is still in use is social security!)  but it was to encourage the dishearted americans during the great depression. h**l...because the american people trusted the new deal so much roosevelt was in office till he died! 4 terms....

Answer 4

The New Deal was a series of programs launched by FDR to spur the country out of the Great Depression. These programs were designed to boost the economy and give jobs to those in need. This is the point in US history when the government realized that they needed to have some contol in the economy for it to succeed, thus the US economic policy was changed from strict Laissez Faire to a Mixed Economy.

Answer 5

Get everyone working and hope for war so that they could capitalize and pay for the mass borrowing program .That's how Churchill saw it.