The Importance Of The New Deal

The Great Depression is the most well-known and greatest economic disasters in not only American history, but also in the entire world. It brought widespread recession with the places hit hardest were ones with the most industrialization. Out of the Great Depression came the New Deal for the United States, a promise from FRD to solve this economic crisis. The importance of the New Deal is still evident as it increased the power of the federal government, began protection of people from corporations, brought widespread wealth, built the middle class, and framed the United States now with the many programs produced. In lecture, it was vividly discussed on how the Great Depression was actually caused as many believe it was solely from the stock …show more content…
652). This helped to redefine the understanding of freedom at the time for Americans with Acts such as the Social Security Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. The SS Act offered aid to the unemployed and elderly where the FLS Act established a national minimum wage. Even though the New Deal notably changed the meaning of freedom, not all people benefitted from this. Those who benefitted were mostly industrial workers, men, and white Americans. Tenant farmers, women, and African Americans received a smaller percentage of this new freedom. The New deal as a whole helped out many people with programs that increased public employment, home ownership, and protection against unemployment and poverty. An example of this would be The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) which approved the federal government to help raise farm prices by setting production quotas on major crops and paying farmers to plant less. The AAA succeeded to raise these prices and incomes, but benefits only flowed to property-owning farmers initially ignoring those who worked on the farms. (Foner, pg. …show more content…
As FDR accepted the Democratic nomination in 1932 while promising a “new deal” for Americans, he was later elected president (Foner, pg. 640). Not only did the democratic party rise to the majority over the republican party, it also transformed the Democratic Party as a whole. A collection of voters would now dominate for the next fifty years. This included white ethnics such as Jews and Catholics, workers, urban voters, African Americans, farmers, and southerners (week 11). These voters were united by the belief that the federal government must provide Americans with protection against the disturbances caused by modern