Dbq Fdr and the Great Depression
Using your knowledge AND the documents provided write a well-reasoned essay in which you discuss the social, political, and economic impact of FDR's New Deal on American Society.
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Document A
Source: Message to congress reviewing the broad objectives accomplishments of the administration. June 8, 1934
On one side of relief we have extended material aid to millions of our fellow citizens. On one side of recovery we have helped to lift agriculture and industry from a condition of utter Prostration. But in addition to these immediate tasks of relief and of recovery, we have properly, necessarily and with overwhelming approval determined to safeguard these tasks by rebuilding many of the structures of our economic life and reorganizing it in order to prevent a recurrence of collapse.
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Document B
Source: Clubb, "An Unfortunate Wait"
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Document C
Source: Virginia Durr Reflects on the Depressions Lessons, ca. 1930s
Have you ever seen a child with rickets? Shaking as with palsy. No proteins no milk. And the companies pouring milk into gutters. People with nothing to wear and they were plowing cotton. People with nothing to eat, and they killed the pigs. If that wasn’t the craziest system in the world, could you imagine anything more idiotic? This was just insane. And people blamed themselves, not the system. They felt they had been at fault:… "if we hadn’t bought that radio"…… "If we hadn’t bought that old secondhand car".
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Document D
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Document E
Source: letter to President Roosevelt.
"While more of my people are working than a year ago,
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Document A
Source: Message to congress reviewing the broad objectives accomplishments of the administration. June 8, 1934
On one side of relief we have extended material aid to millions of our fellow citizens. On one side of recovery we have helped to lift agriculture and industry from a condition of utter Prostration. But in addition to these immediate tasks of relief and of recovery, we have properly, necessarily and with overwhelming approval determined to safeguard these tasks by rebuilding many of the structures of our economic life and reorganizing it in order to prevent a recurrence of collapse.
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Document B
Source: Clubb, "An Unfortunate Wait"
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Document C
Source: Virginia Durr Reflects on the Depressions Lessons, ca. 1930s
Have you ever seen a child with rickets? Shaking as with palsy. No proteins no milk. And the companies pouring milk into gutters. People with nothing to wear and they were plowing cotton. People with nothing to eat, and they killed the pigs. If that wasn’t the craziest system in the world, could you imagine anything more idiotic? This was just insane. And people blamed themselves, not the system. They felt they had been at fault:… "if we hadn’t bought that radio"…… "If we hadn’t bought that old secondhand car".
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Document D
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Document E
Source: letter to President Roosevelt.
"While more of my people are working than a year ago,