The Failure Of The New Deal

It all began with the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Stock prices went down, people lost their money and jobs, and Americans began to lose hope in their president, Herbert Hoover. Hoover served the rest of his term but Franklin D. Roosevelt took over after winning the 1932 election. FDR had a plan for helping America to get out of the depression that they were in. It was called the New Deal. The New Deal included many public programs, like the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Social Security Act, and was hopefully going to decrease the unemployment rate that had jumped in the previous years. While some parts of the New Deal succeeded, it was an overall fail due to the discrimination against African Americans, many of the remedies and programs not helping,
At this time there were millions of unemployed that were in search of work. The government was only giving employment opportunities to “one-quarter of a million of the unemployed,” and it was only in the fields of forestry and flood prevention. It was also only mainly directed towards younger men who were looking for jobs. Even some people who had jobs, like farmers, were still unable to pay off the loans and debt they had acquired. As a result of this, Congress decided to pass a legislation to ease mortgage distress, when farmers and homeowners couldn’t pay off their loans so their property was taken away, for those who fell into that category. People argue that it is unrealistic to try and get everybody that was unemployed jobs and that the government was really trying to help these people who were in that situation and I see what they are saying but Congress still could have thought of more ideas that could have employed more people even though there would still be many unemployed people throughout America (Roosevelt