Franklin D. Roosevelt's Response To The Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in response to the beginning of the Great Depression, the Great Depression started on October 29, 1929. The Stock Market crashed and millions of Americans lost their jobs and had to live on the streets desperately searching for jobs with little hope of being accepted into a new job. Nearly 15 million Americans were unemployed and almost half of the country’s banks have failed. Franklin D. Roosevelt helped ease the matter of the Great Depression in the 1930’s by his administration passing legislation that aimed to stabilize industrial and agricultural production. It helped create jobs and stimulate recovery of the nation so the people would not have to live in poverty. Although Franklin D. Roosevelt had a variety of good ideas such as the Civilian Conservation Corps which gave many Americans jobs just to help save the environment, overall his support through the Great Depression was well and good however his “New Deal” did not end the Great Depression. The New Deal failed to fix the economy and get the people of the U.S out of the Great Depression. …show more content…
“In 1939, after almost two full terms of Roosevelt and his New Deal, unemployment had not dropped, but had risen to 17.2 percent. Almost nine and one-half million Americans were unemployed.”( FEE Freeman Article) This goes to show that what Roosevelt did not notice is that he was raising the unemployment rate at an extended rate. The New Deal was instructed to alleviate the Great Depression but when he first brought up the New Deal unemployment has increased. Later on he tries to help by creating a few job opportunities for people however this idea that he had did not end the great depression it just helped the people to an