Have you ever thought about a deal that would help all of society? Well Franklin D. Roosevelt did for that exact reason. This deal was called the New Deal and it was created in 1933 and lasted until 1935. It was created to help society after the Great Depression. In the year 1929, the U.S. stock market crashes, and the Great Depression begins. In 1931, over 8 million Americans are unemployed. Many people thought it went too far, and others thought that the New Deal did not go far enough. The overall question that is being asked is, “Was the New Deal a success?”. This answer to this question is determined by the New Deal public programs. Some of them would be the Civilian Conservation Corps, Agriculture Adjustment Administration, National
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In the “Hot Lunches for a Million School Children” program the WPA (Works Progress Administration) gave hot lunches to 1 million undernourished children. “In the past year and a half 80,000,000 hot well balanced meals have been served at the rate of 500,000 daily in 10,000 schools throughout the whole country”( Woodward 4). Many children had to leave early in the morning, and after school had to walk long distances to get back home. “The WPA lunch constitutes the only hot meal of the day”( Woodward 4). By giving hot meals to needy children it also provided jobs for needy women workers. This evidence supports the statement that the WPA lunch program supported the New Deal because it helped many children get at least one hot meal a day. Even if they themselves were not able to buy and prepare a meal for themselves, the WPA gave them that privilege to have that hot meal every day. It also gave jobs to women that really needed them. In a song from The Carter Family called “No Depression in Heaven”, they said they want to go where there there are “No orphan children crying for bread”, and “No weeping widows toil or struggle”( Carter 6). This evidence helps explain how the counterclaim is not as valid because as time went on, more and more people were being …show more content…
In a recent unemployment rate estimates for the 1920s and 1930s, it showed that even a couple of years after the New Deal was not in effect unemployment rates continued to go down. During the period that the New Deal was in effect, unemployment went down 6%(Smiley 5). In the years before the New Deal was in effect unemployment rates were very high. In 1932, the year before the New Deal started, rates were up to 22.5%(Smiley 5). This evidence helps support the statement that the New Deal Lowered unemployment rates because even though it was only an estimate it still showed that the New Deal would bring down unemployment rates. In a song written by The Carter Family called No Depression in Heaven it says, “Out here the hearts of men are failing”(Carter 6). This information is against the statement that the New Deal lowered unemployment rates because men and women were losing hope of getting a job because the great Depression was spreading. This statement supports the overall question that the New Deal was a success because it indeed did lower unemployment rates even if the unemployment statistics were an
In the “Hot Lunches for a Million School Children” program the WPA (Works Progress Administration) gave hot lunches to 1 million undernourished children. “In the past year and a half 80,000,000 hot well balanced meals have been served at the rate of 500,000 daily in 10,000 schools throughout the whole country”( Woodward 4). Many children had to leave early in the morning, and after school had to walk long distances to get back home. “The WPA lunch constitutes the only hot meal of the day”( Woodward 4). By giving hot meals to needy children it also provided jobs for needy women workers. This evidence supports the statement that the WPA lunch program supported the New Deal because it helped many children get at least one hot meal a day. Even if they themselves were not able to buy and prepare a meal for themselves, the WPA gave them that privilege to have that hot meal every day. It also gave jobs to women that really needed them. In a song from The Carter Family called “No Depression in Heaven”, they said they want to go where there there are “No orphan children crying for bread”, and “No weeping widows toil or struggle”( Carter 6). This evidence helps explain how the counterclaim is not as valid because as time went on, more and more people were being …show more content…
In a recent unemployment rate estimates for the 1920s and 1930s, it showed that even a couple of years after the New Deal was not in effect unemployment rates continued to go down. During the period that the New Deal was in effect, unemployment went down 6%(Smiley 5). In the years before the New Deal was in effect unemployment rates were very high. In 1932, the year before the New Deal started, rates were up to 22.5%(Smiley 5). This evidence helps support the statement that the New Deal Lowered unemployment rates because even though it was only an estimate it still showed that the New Deal would bring down unemployment rates. In a song written by The Carter Family called No Depression in Heaven it says, “Out here the hearts of men are failing”(Carter 6). This information is against the statement that the New Deal lowered unemployment rates because men and women were losing hope of getting a job because the great Depression was spreading. This statement supports the overall question that the New Deal was a success because it indeed did lower unemployment rates even if the unemployment statistics were an