Evaluation Of The New Deal

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Term Paper Title	Evaluation Of The New Deal
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Evaluation Of The New Deal

        Franklin D. Roosevelt brought the new deal into American life in the early thirties.  Its purpose was to overcome the depression. Following the depression there were many programs and acts to help the nation recover from the depression.  The "forgotten Americans" were the citizens who needed the new deal to benefit their poverty-stricken way of life. These people were the blacks, women, immigrants, and the many people who suffered from the lack of monetary supplement.
        Unemployment was one of the biggest issues to strike the "forgotten Americans."
The new deal provided helping programs such as the Social securities act, WPA, and the federal Emergency Relief Act to lower unemployment and to help those who couldn't work.  Checks could be received by those who were poor because of the Social Securities Act. The WPA, led by Harry Hopkins, was built to help artists and musicians obtain a steady form of employment that would help lift the nations’ spirit.  The federal Emergency Relief Act provided relief money for a limited time to those workers who had been laid off.  For the black workers, the NAACP was created; it was one of the most important groups fighting for the rights of blacks and is still involved in the black community today. Minorities were still unchanged in the labors.  Even under the new deal, blacks were treated unfair. Women were also treated very poorly when it came to the labor situation.  They were given the so-called women's jobs, such as teachers, clerks, typists, nurses, and textile workers.  Unions for blacks and women were rare until John Lewis formed the CIO, a union anyone could join, no matter what race they were.  The CIO was one of the top unions in the nation.  The new deal had again failed with the creation of the AF of L.  The AF of L was a division of many craft unions, sanctioned by the teamsters that had great political influence in during the depression.
        Government jobs and political rights were a goal for the new deal to let more Americans have access to the pleasures that any white man could have.  The Shocking "g...

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