Why did Roosevelt enact a second new deal?
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- Created on: 09-05-13 15:29
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- Why did Roosevelt introduce the Second New Deal?
- Failure of the 1st New Deal
- Didnt bring about full economic recovery
- Accusations from opposition
- Desperate poverty & high unemployment
- Political Reasons
- 1936 election was looming
- Determined to override obstructive decisions made by the Supreme Court
- 1934 more radical House of Representatives were expecting action
- Sought to retain initative in new legislation
- Economic needs
- Frustrated by opposition from Big Business
- Wanted to help small businesses as they were "key" to recovery
- America needed a government to take responsibility
- Enact social security legilsation
- Failure of the 1st New Deal
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