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    According to Document 1, the National Youth Administration allowed teenagers to obtain jobs to make money. Teenagers worked long hours, but were able to help support their families and provided enough money for them to stay in school. The National Youth Administration provided much needed relief to entire families as teenagers were able to find jobs to boost family incomes and to receive an education…

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    The Great Depression began in 1929 and lasted almost 10 years; It was a time period when the America had the most severe economic. The majority of American left their home with dream to earn money to support their family; even teenagers left school to get a chance to work in order to find a better life on their own. People who found a work during the Great Depression would have a bad living condition provided. The owner housed them with a shanty, barn, or even an open field. However, the wage…

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    the nation with the Civil Conservation Crops, this employed 3 million single men from ages 17 to 23 to nations’ forests to work. After, Works Progress Administration employed more than 8.5 million people to build bridges, roads, public buildings, parks and airports. Lastly, the National Industrial Recovery Act and the National Recovery Administration were designed to address unemployment. These acts regulated the number of hours worked per week and also banning child labor. In conclusion, the…

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    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…

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    Federal Government before and after New Deal The new deal was the very important strategy of the federal government to get rid of the great depression of 1929 in the United States. Before Franklin D Roosevelt took over, Herbert Hoover was the President of United States. At that time the country was running in a laissez faire economy which means federal government had no power over the business affair in the economy. The business were free to run in their own way, government did not have any…

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    In 1933 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, he passed a series of documents called the New Deal. These documents were created in hope to push recovery in America and pull it out of the Great Depression. This New Deal supplied workers with jobs by creating government funded works projects to help better develop the country. Many of these jobs were specifically directed to artists. Before this time never before in history have artists been considered "workers". But because of the New Deal,…

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    President Franklin D. Roosevelt created programs that were a part of New Deal. The programs focused on relief, recovery and reform; as known as “3 R’s”. One of the programs was the National Recovery Administration (NRA) that was created by National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA). The National Recovery Administration worked with industry, labor and government in 1933 to create codes that would help set minimum wages and maximum hours in United States. One of the main reasons for Great Depression…

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    “It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it...”(Brown 40). People went through emotional turmoil throughout the Great Depression. The book The Boys in the Boat is by Daniel James Brown, and it is about a guy by the name of Joe Rantz. Joe Rantz had gone to college during the Great Depression, and he joined the rowing team in order to keep his scholarship. The book talks about how he survived the…

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    There, were multiple factors, including Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal that caused the United States to be the last of the major industrial nation to leave the Great Depression. The National Industrial Recovery Act, which was passed in 1933, caused in imbalance economically for businesses. Passing the National Industrial Recovery Act, or the NIRA, the government programs such as the…

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    THE NEW DEAL PROJECT Krista L. Sweet New Deal Project Introduction Franklin D. Roosevelt’s idea of the “New Deal Project,” was to promote the economy into recovery. The New Deal Project was known as the solution to the Great Depression. Franklin’s presidency was also known as the “New Deal.” The Breakdown of the Great Depression Many people began leaving the Dust Bowl states. Making the Pacific Northwest population grow steadily. Federal agencies began to create a vast public program for…

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