How Did The New Deal Stabilize The Economy

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal presented a series of attempts to stabilize the economy of the Great Depression (Lecture 11/17/2014). However, its intentions to stimulate the market through relief, recovery, and reform did not always prevail (Roark 746). The New Deal’s failure to produce a permanent solution caused millions of Americans to search aimlessly for opportunities of work in order to survive. Ordinary Americans during this era brought new perspectives to the economic reform, proving that The New Deal created false expectations and contradicted the conditions of the nation. As the New Deal continued to leave the economic system unresolved, people sought to look for prospects in other states. With the condition of the Great Depression quickly worsening with the Dust Bowl, civilians set …show more content…
Unfortunately, many Americans were unaware that California was still in the process of recovering from the hardships of the Great Depression (Roark 732). Woody Guthrie’s 1930’s, “Do Re Mi” explains the typical false expectations that existed among the Okie’s. In his lyrics, he states, ‘“They think they're goin' to a sugar bowl, but here's what they find | Now, the police at the port of entry say | "You're number fourteen thousand for today."” (Guthrie). Okie migrants crossed over to California by the thousands everyday (Guthrie). They viewed California as a “sugar bowl” because they thought it was abundant in work labor and would allow them to have a future (Roark 732). However, with the crash of the economy, the Great Depression left little room for employment. This caused countless Americans to be left jobless, and crowding the streets of California (Roark 731). Guthrie advised Americans to stay in their homelands, as he claimed ‘”…I look