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New Deal


The "Okies" had no where to go, so thousands of them migrated to other states, especially to California. The American people were in turmoil and they had no one to blame but current President Herbert Hoover. In protest of this Great Depression people built "Hoovervilles" right in front of the White House, so the President could see how the American people were living. President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in January of 1933, and his reaction to this financial depression that began to shape America's society was what came to be known as the New Deal. It was a program of capitalism modified by economic planning that would create a more even distribution of national wealth. The New Deal represented the culmination of a long-range trend towards the abandonment of the laissez-faire attitude. Roosevelt wanted a government headed more towards "Keynesian" economics. John Maynard Keynes believed that it is the governments responsibility to interfere in the free market, and they should participate. If America had this kind of economic system, maybe there would have never been the great depression.
             There were three principal goals of President Roosevelt's New Deal. Here are the three principals;.
             1. There was a need to provide relief for the thousands of Americans who were out of work and broke.
             2. There was a need to bring about recovery from the economic paralysis that was gripping the nation.
             3. There was a need to enact reform to prevent this depression from ever happening again. .
             The first step taken towards repairing America's economy was to create more jobs. An example of the programs Roosevelt created to alleviate the unemployment problem was The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). It was run in the same strict fashion as the military, and it's objective was to enroll jobless young men (men from the ages of 18-25) in work camps for small wages. These men participated in projects aimed at conservation, such as eliminating stream pollution, and conserving coal, petroleum, shale, gas, sodium, and helium deposits.


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