The New Deal: Main Backers Of The Great Depression
The New Deal was a massive amount of reforms made by the government to dig America out of the Depression. The Great Depression was a massive depression that struck because of a stock market crash. Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the main backers of The New Deal. The New Deal tried greatly to reverse the effects of the Depression while receiving help from F.D.R. while also being the target of many critics.
Some things that the New Deal did to try to reverse the Depression was building projects to provide jobs. For example, “one of the most successful New Deal programs was legislation enacted in 1933 to create the Tennessee Valley Authority” (Carson and Bonk). This is important because it shows how the government was working to start providing money to the country in their own way. …show more content…
This was a critics sight on how the NRA had taken over how much you had to pay your employees. Another concern of the critic was that the president had too much power. He explained why he believed this by saying “the president message seems based on a doctrine so revolutionary and so dangerous to the existence of democratic government in the United States that I cannot let a single day pass without protesting”(Edwards). This was the critics take on how different Roosevelt was doing things compared to previous presidents and government officials. One final concern of the critic was that what if Roosevelt's power went unchecked then he would do whatever he wanted. He drove this point home by saying “if the president can do this, then he can draft men in violation of the conscription law, or outside the conscription law”(Edwards). This was the critic scaremongering the public by saying that at this rate he would draft everyone against him to the
Some things that the New Deal did to try to reverse the Depression was building projects to provide jobs. For example, “one of the most successful New Deal programs was legislation enacted in 1933 to create the Tennessee Valley Authority” (Carson and Bonk). This is important because it shows how the government was working to start providing money to the country in their own way. …show more content…
This was a critics sight on how the NRA had taken over how much you had to pay your employees. Another concern of the critic was that the president had too much power. He explained why he believed this by saying “the president message seems based on a doctrine so revolutionary and so dangerous to the existence of democratic government in the United States that I cannot let a single day pass without protesting”(Edwards). This was the critics take on how different Roosevelt was doing things compared to previous presidents and government officials. One final concern of the critic was that what if Roosevelt's power went unchecked then he would do whatever he wanted. He drove this point home by saying “if the president can do this, then he can draft men in violation of the conscription law, or outside the conscription law”(Edwards). This was the critic scaremongering the public by saying that at this rate he would draft everyone against him to the