Successful new deal
- Created by: Jasmin
- Created on: 07-06-13 12:37
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- How successful was the New Deal?
- Aims
- Reduce unemployment and restore prosperity
- ND created millions of jobs CCC PWA 1933 R became president unemployment 13m 1940 8m
- 1937 gov started to spend less money on schemes, production fell again and another depression. Unemployment rose 1938 to over 10m
- Failed to solve unemployment problem
- Restore stability to America's banking and financial system
- successfully restored banking crisis due to Emergency Banking Act
- restored peoples confidence in banks and people began to deposit their money in them once again
- Give aid to needy
- FERA provided needy with emergency aid
- 1935 onwards elements of basic welfare state established
- Unemployment benefits and pensions introduced and gov intervened to ensure better working conditions and minimum wage
- Reduce unemployment and restore prosperity
- Black Americans
- 200,000 gained benefits from CCC, slum clearance and housing project
- Many agencies discriminated against black people
- R failed to pass laws against lynching of blacks - feared Democrat senators in the south wouldn't support him
- Women
- Included in CCC cheap labour
- Local gov tried to avoid paying out social security payments to women by introducing special qualifications and conditions
- Aims
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