The Great Depression started on October 24 in 1929 when the stock market crashed. Hoover was the president at the time and was not able to do anything to help America get out of the depression. When the election came up, Hoover was not reelected and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected instead. FDR created a program called the New Deal to help America get out of the Great Depression. This New Deal lasted from 1933-1935. Many Americans supported the New Deal but there were still some critics. In 1935, the Second New Deal was put into place because of the encouragement FDR was receiving. The New Deal is highly debatable and can be debate well on both sides. The New Deal was not a success because it discriminated blacks from getting a good,stable job, put the business industry back
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The AAA was trying to raise farm prices with lower production for an increase in income. “The AAA tried to raise farm prices. It used proceeds from a new tax to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and animals. Lower production would, in turn, increase prices,” (Birdsell 2). Instead, taxes grew and people began to starve. In the New Deal Programs on the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, the article states, The New Deal Programs on the AAA stated that, “Many could not believe that the federal government was condoning such an action when many Americans were starving. This was declared unconstitutional later on.” This shows that some organizations only cared about the people they were helping and that problem. A person can argue that there can’t be starvation if the WPA, or Works Progress Administration, was giving out hot meals to children in need and sometimes that would be the only meal they get. However, this only helped 10,000 schools throughout the whole country when there is hundreds of thousands in each state and says nothing about helping adults in
The AAA was trying to raise farm prices with lower production for an increase in income. “The AAA tried to raise farm prices. It used proceeds from a new tax to pay farmers not to raise specific crops and animals. Lower production would, in turn, increase prices,” (Birdsell 2). Instead, taxes grew and people began to starve. In the New Deal Programs on the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, the article states, The New Deal Programs on the AAA stated that, “Many could not believe that the federal government was condoning such an action when many Americans were starving. This was declared unconstitutional later on.” This shows that some organizations only cared about the people they were helping and that problem. A person can argue that there can’t be starvation if the WPA, or Works Progress Administration, was giving out hot meals to children in need and sometimes that would be the only meal they get. However, this only helped 10,000 schools throughout the whole country when there is hundreds of thousands in each state and says nothing about helping adults in