Fdr New Deal Essay

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By 1932 people had lost confidence in president hoover and his republican government. The elections took place that year and his opposition franklin Delano Roosevelt won. Franklin d. Roosevelt (FDR) introduced the new deal. It was introduced to solve the economic problems created by the great depression of the 1930s. However, the new deal didn't end the depression, but it did relieve much economic problems and gave Americans faith in the democratic system at a time when other nations hit by the depression turned to the dictators. The new deal programs were admired by some people and rejected by others. The reason to why it was successful was because of the many relief policies. These policies focused on three general goals: relief for the needy, …show more content…

The FDIC helped the majority of the American citizens regain confidence and control, while the Indian reorganization act helped a minority that had, for the time being, learned to live with poverty. Both were the works of a time that brought the nation out of the greatest economic slide it has ever seen. Though it had its critics and doubters, the new deal proved to be an effective and efficient way to recover from the crash of 1929 and the great depression but it was simply not enough to cure the economy of its problems. The economy was still nowhere near where it was in 1929 and unemployment was still a growing …show more content…

The new deal generated crazed opposition from large sections of the ruling class and the Supreme Court was mobilised to try to overrule some of Roosevelt’s measures, but all such attempts failed, and the majority of the new deal laws came to be accepted by democrats and republican parties alike as permanent features of American life. The new deal also affected capitalism, the critics first accused the government of destroying capitalism and democracy. It attempted to make capitalism work by adopting some of its methods associated with socialism. It also gave the economy stability that it needed to maintain

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