Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal: Relief, Reform, And Reform

Franklin Delano Roosevelt came into office in 1932. The depression was too great that him and his Brain Trust came up with an idea called “the New Deal.” It was created to help Americans recover from the Great Depression. The New Deal consisted of the three R’s which are Relief, Reform, and Recovery. Relief was aimed to provide help to the unemployed and the hunger. Millions were unemployed in America, unable to find jobs in economy during the Great Depression. The unemployment would have starved to death if it were not for the government making jobs available. For example, the Civilian Conservation Corps also known as CCC. The Civilian Conservation Corps makes temporary jobs to unmarried men. The jobs consisted of planting trees, clear land, and other work. Another agencies that were created for Relief was Federal Emergency Relief Act. The act gave immediate to help those that needed it in the form of cash payment. The government grants the state and local agencies money, food, and other supplies to the people. The next step of the New Deal is Reform. Reform was aimed to change the way the economy worked. This program was to
These programs or agencies are known today as “Alphabet Soup” that created a huge federal bureaucracy. There were some successes and failures of the New Deal. The successes were that Roosevelt restored confidence to the people, people were given jobs, and he rescued the banking system from collapse and saved capitalism. One of the long-term effects was that the government could be seen as a source of help the people in need. The short-term was that the New Deal did help the depression become less of a problem. Now, there are also some failures which was the new recession, there are still some unemployment left, and the government only made temporary jobs. Even though the New Deal did not get America out of depression it still changed the country for the better a