The New Deal was a driving force in the establishment of the United States’ party systems and political alignments from 1932 to 1940 as its liberal, frontal approach to the Great Depression switched popularity and progressive ideology from the Republican party to the Democrat party, both attracting conservative elitists and liberals respectively. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal promptly captured the attention of citizens suffering from the Great Depression and reformed the Democrats’ ideology to be more progressive than the Republican party. With the economical and social decline of the nation due to the Great Depression, people were unsatisfied with former President Hoover’s Republican ideology of people fending for themselves and
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While Hoover and the Republicans held eighty-three point six percent of electoral votes in 1928, Roosevelt held eighty-nine percent of electoral votes and over half the popular votes in 1932 (Document 1). After Hoover’s lackluster policies against the Great Depression, the American people revered Roosevelt and his New Deal. A political cartoon portrays Roosevelt sailing the nation and its people on the path to recovery, portraying elitists Republicans as corpulent businessmen heckling Roosevelt while doing nothing to help the situation (Document 5). The New Deal brought victory to the Democratic Party, but it also effectively turned the party into a more progressive party with a deeper involvement in the nation’s economy and people. The New Deal established the Public Works Administration and the Civil Works Administration to address unemployment, giving millions of Americans jobs again. This allocation of jobs was one of many relief efforts the New Deal implemented during its time. These relief efforts also extended towards minorities, the elderly, and the disabled as the nation adopted a welfare state and issued the Social Security Act of 1935. In contrast, right wing Republicans and conservative Democrats opposed many of the New Deal’s policies and reforms under the pretense that Roosevelt was spending …show more content…
The New Deal’s inclusion of minorities naturally attracted marginalized groups including women and African Americans. Women like Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward actively promoted the involvement of women in the New Deal’s relief efforts. She reasoned that Roosevelt included women when he said “no able-bodied citizens were to be allowed to deteriorate on relief but must be given jobs” (Document 6). The Women's Division in the Works Progress Administration was a momentous step for working women in the New Deal. While African Americans were still segregated, they were also given jobs through the various relief efforts. People such as Harold Ikes even recommended blacks to higher working positions. He defended the capability of black workers, stating that they can manage and supervise “just as efficiently as can white men” (Document 4). Previously, African AMericans supported Republicans due to Abraham Lincoln, but Roosevelt’s New Deal converted their support to the Democratic party. Likewise, farmers also began to appreciate the New Deal’s intervention in regards to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Farmers referred to the A.A.A. as “the first and only broad-range programs designed to help farmers”
While Hoover and the Republicans held eighty-three point six percent of electoral votes in 1928, Roosevelt held eighty-nine percent of electoral votes and over half the popular votes in 1932 (Document 1). After Hoover’s lackluster policies against the Great Depression, the American people revered Roosevelt and his New Deal. A political cartoon portrays Roosevelt sailing the nation and its people on the path to recovery, portraying elitists Republicans as corpulent businessmen heckling Roosevelt while doing nothing to help the situation (Document 5). The New Deal brought victory to the Democratic Party, but it also effectively turned the party into a more progressive party with a deeper involvement in the nation’s economy and people. The New Deal established the Public Works Administration and the Civil Works Administration to address unemployment, giving millions of Americans jobs again. This allocation of jobs was one of many relief efforts the New Deal implemented during its time. These relief efforts also extended towards minorities, the elderly, and the disabled as the nation adopted a welfare state and issued the Social Security Act of 1935. In contrast, right wing Republicans and conservative Democrats opposed many of the New Deal’s policies and reforms under the pretense that Roosevelt was spending …show more content…
The New Deal’s inclusion of minorities naturally attracted marginalized groups including women and African Americans. Women like Mrs. Ellen S. Woodward actively promoted the involvement of women in the New Deal’s relief efforts. She reasoned that Roosevelt included women when he said “no able-bodied citizens were to be allowed to deteriorate on relief but must be given jobs” (Document 6). The Women's Division in the Works Progress Administration was a momentous step for working women in the New Deal. While African Americans were still segregated, they were also given jobs through the various relief efforts. People such as Harold Ikes even recommended blacks to higher working positions. He defended the capability of black workers, stating that they can manage and supervise “just as efficiently as can white men” (Document 4). Previously, African AMericans supported Republicans due to Abraham Lincoln, but Roosevelt’s New Deal converted their support to the Democratic party. Likewise, farmers also began to appreciate the New Deal’s intervention in regards to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Farmers referred to the A.A.A. as “the first and only broad-range programs designed to help farmers”