Fdr's Administration DBQ

The Great Depression caused many problems for the United States. Because of the incredibly low economy, citizens were struggling to get by. The stock market had just crashed, so many people became unemployed and people’s debt started increasing. After Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president, his administration created agencies to try and combat the economic despair. The responses of FDR’s administration to the Great Depression helped try to improve the economy as a whole, but were more effective in providing relief for the Americans rather than fixing the overall depression. The philosophy behind Roosevelt’s Administration was taken from John Maynard Keys. In order to recover, they believed the US needed to spend more money. Federal money needed to be spent to help the overall economy (Document 4), and it was spend on Roosevelt’s New Deal. In the New Deal, agencies with plans to help relief, recover, or reform America were constructed. A numerous amount of agencies were created to try and fix a variety of problems (Document 3). Relief agencies, like the WPA, which helped create work projects, helped
Having Roosevelt as president helped give the nation hope for an end to the depression, but it also increased the power of the federal government and the national debt immensely. *The New Deal was similar to Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal. Both deals increased the power of the federal government. The government became more involved with citizens’ lives. Social security, part of the New Deal, helped benefit the health of Americans through its unemployment insurance. Likewise, the Food and Drug Act helped improve the health of Americans by regulating what went into food Americans were buying. Although in different ways, both deals helped the health of America and strived to change the country for the