The New Deal agencies created by president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930’s helped the United States bounce back from the chaos of the Great Depression. The three R’s, relief, recovery, and reform, were a way to categorize the agencies that saved people’s lives. The unemployment rate dropped dramatically as the economy flourished, and the greatest success of the New Deal was the security it gave to Americans. The Alphabet Agencies served many purposes, but they were all used to help Americans during the aftermath of the depression. One agency known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), employed millions of people to carry out public works projects. The WPA constructed as many as 125,000 government-run buildings, 650,000 miles
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Roosevelt stepped into office in 1933 and the New Deal began, the unemployment rate dropped greatly. The unemployment rate was 20.6% when Roosevelt began his first term, but by 1945 the unemployment rate dropped all the way down to 1.9% in just 12 years. Just this alone helps prove that the New Deal was very beneficial for the growth of the American economy. The agencies got 18.7% of Americans workforce back into the job market, which explains why the economy flourished during this time of change. During one of Roosevelt’s fireside chats, he talks about giving employment to 250,000 people, mostly young men, to go into forestry and flood prevention. The only jobs given to black men were labor intensive, and any jobs that required thought or smarts were given to white men. Sam T. Mayhew was a black man who made this statement in …show more content…
The New Deal made it harder for blacks to get jobs in the skilled classification, and only offered them jobs in unskilled labor, That being said, since many of the jobs were based around labor, it would’ve been difficult for anyone with a physical handicap to get work, no matter what race. These policies weren’t perfect, but they did help many African Americans get work that involved hard labor, which was the case for many people. The New Deal was also willing to help the poor and not just the upper class. Mill worker George Dobbin said this about the New Deal, A man to speak for him, a man that could make what he felt so plain that nobody could doubt he meant it, has made a lot of us feel a sight better even when there wasn’t much to eat in our homes. Roosevelt picked us up out of the mud and stood us up, but whenever he turns us loose I’m afraid we’re going to fall and go deep in the mud than we was before… The only president we ever had that thought the Constitution belonged to the poor man
Roosevelt stepped into office in 1933 and the New Deal began, the unemployment rate dropped greatly. The unemployment rate was 20.6% when Roosevelt began his first term, but by 1945 the unemployment rate dropped all the way down to 1.9% in just 12 years. Just this alone helps prove that the New Deal was very beneficial for the growth of the American economy. The agencies got 18.7% of Americans workforce back into the job market, which explains why the economy flourished during this time of change. During one of Roosevelt’s fireside chats, he talks about giving employment to 250,000 people, mostly young men, to go into forestry and flood prevention. The only jobs given to black men were labor intensive, and any jobs that required thought or smarts were given to white men. Sam T. Mayhew was a black man who made this statement in …show more content…
The New Deal made it harder for blacks to get jobs in the skilled classification, and only offered them jobs in unskilled labor, That being said, since many of the jobs were based around labor, it would’ve been difficult for anyone with a physical handicap to get work, no matter what race. These policies weren’t perfect, but they did help many African Americans get work that involved hard labor, which was the case for many people. The New Deal was also willing to help the poor and not just the upper class. Mill worker George Dobbin said this about the New Deal, A man to speak for him, a man that could make what he felt so plain that nobody could doubt he meant it, has made a lot of us feel a sight better even when there wasn’t much to eat in our homes. Roosevelt picked us up out of the mud and stood us up, but whenever he turns us loose I’m afraid we’re going to fall and go deep in the mud than we was before… The only president we ever had that thought the Constitution belonged to the poor man