New Deal Essay Outline

Roosevelts aims for the First New Deal
Three R’s
• Relief- Quickly provided jobs for Americans. Fast immediate actions that addressed hunger and poverty.
• Reform- actions that focused on banking, farming and labor reforms.
• Recovery- long-term actions that focused on fixing problems of the past so the future would be better.
Roosevelts aims for the Second New Deal
• The Wagner Act that forced all employers to allow trade unions to operate in their companies and allow workers to negotiate for pay and conditions.
• The Social Security Act that provided state pensions for the elderly and widows.
• The Works Progress Administration that brought together all of the organizations that were aimed to create jobs.
• The Resettlement Administration that helped smallholders and tenant farmers that had not been helped by the AAA.
Roosevelt succeeded in the First New Deal because it created many jobs and helped many people get money and better working conditions with unions. The Second New Deal failed because it led to a Recession because it made jobs go up but wages go down.
Unemployment remained high in the thirties because businesses could not afford to hire workers, the money never trickled down and it just stayed at the top. Wages went down so a lot of workers were not paid. When people had no money, they did not buy things, and when people did not buy things companies did not have to manufacture the product as much and therefore they didn’t need employees.
The New Deal was both a success and not a success, although unemployment rates were high, the New Deal kept many people from starving, it created a good amount of jobs and generated a lot of money. Many organizations were made to help various different things.
The opposition of the New Deal made it hard to work because people like Huey Long described how the New Deal did not help the poor and how that’s what it should have been aimed at to help. The Supreme Court also opposed the New deal and that made it hard to pass everything from it in Congress.
I think that the criticism saying, “The New Deal makes Roosevelt a dictator.” is the most serious because it betrays what America was founded on and it goes against the beliefs of America, having freedom.
The greatest achievement of the New Deal was that all of the voters were in favor it. The Supreme Court may have not agreed with it, but the people that were affected by it were all for it. This is important because it is what the people want, and it is an achievement because the idea was won over by the American people.
Roosevelt would have most definitely agreed with my choice because the New Deal would have been a COMPLETE disaster if the voters were not in favor of it. If the people that were affected by it, did not like it, then why would it be passed in the first place? The New Deal was for the good of the American people and that is why the voters were in favor of it and why it was the most important, he would agree.
The New Deal was a success because it created a good amount of jobs and it generated eighty plus organizations that helped farmers to start farming and selling their goods for a profit from Civilians getting jobs working as typers. The first New deal and the second new deal were good efforts at trying to turn around the economy and it had a big impact on Americans because Roosevelt did the fireside chats and it made Americans feel like they were having a close interaction with the president. The New Deal was opposed because people thought it was too much and it was over thought. People also opposed it because they thought it did not focus on the poor. I believe the New Deal was a success because it made farmers get back into business as well as create thousands of jobs for Americans.