How Was The New Deal A Failure Or A Success Or Success?

Was the New Deal of the nineteen thirties a failure or a success? The question is difficult to answer without the knowledge of life without the New Deal. It also depends on what your definition of success is. People form their opinions from the sources they get such as media, book, and newspapers. The Great Depression occurred on October 29, 1929, a day known as “Black Tuesday” when the stock market crashed. During this time the banks failed, the nation’s money supply diminished, and companies were bankrupt, which caused them to fired workers. People who invested their money in the stock market lost all of their money due to the crash. However, the New Deal helped put some things back into place, well at least tried fixing some of the problems …show more content…
The New Deal dominated even after Roosevelt death, “nobody, including Roosevelt, knew exactly what the changes would revive the nation’s ailing economy and improves American’s life (Roark et al 679).” “But Roosevelt and many others knew that the future of American capitalism and democracy was at stake (Roark et al 679).” The New Deal was launched at noon on March 4, 1993. The New Plan created more jobs, but it didn’t get rid of unemployment, but it gave others opportunities they didn’t have before. The New Deal goals for relief, recover, and reform failed, but they succeed in other ways. Roosevelt needed people to make the New Deal possible so he convey a “Brain Trust” which was a group that gave him advice and ideas. Eleanor Roosevelt became the New Deal’s “unofficial ambassador”, she served as “the eyes and ears of the New Deal.” She would visit various part of the country and listen to the public, like a North Carolina woman’s right activist recalled “One of the my greatest pleasure was meeting Mrs. Roosevelt.... she was free of prejudice…she was always willing to take a stand, and there were stands to take about black and women (Roark et al 682).” She would listen to feedbacks on the new programs that the New Deal created. People noticed the changes the New Deal was creating in their lives that they reelected Roosevelt in 1936, 1940, and 1944. “Feeling that they had a friend in the White House, thousands of American working people wrote the president and other New Dealers, especially Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to help restore employment, and to regulate wages, hours, and working conditions (Markowitz, Rosner). You can