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Tyler Defino Period 8
DBQ Essay Buttigieg

At the start of the new decade, the 1930’s, the U.S. and many other nations’ economies faltered and slowly commenced a long and painful depression. Many groups like churches and benevolent individuals tried to help out the jobless, homeless, and starving, but they had limited power, only government agencies had the power to create mass relief programs. Millions of Americans were left jobless, homeless, and starving with no way to help their family. This trapped and helpless feeling that Americans had led to a lack of pride and self esteem in the free enterprise system and a scare that the U.S. might turn to communism to solve the depression, So, in order to save the U.S. from complete economic ruin and protect those rights that we fought so hard for throughout our history, President Franklin D. Roosevelt took control and produced numerous relief programs. Such programs include the Emergency Banking Act, the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, Social Security and multiple others. With these programs, poor and jobless Americans were given a chance to survive and prosper through the hard economic times and once again bring back the old, prosperous U.S. economy.

As the U.S. fell into its first major economic depression, it was exposed too many problems. A depression is defined as a sustained economic recession in which a nation’s Gross National Product is falling and marked by low production, sales, and a high rate of business failures and unemployment. So, the most extreme problem that Americans faced during the Great Depression was the extensive amount of business failure. This failure led to almost all the other problems in the depression. Once, businesses failed, they had to lay off workers, which in turn adds more poor people on the street, or more people who don’t have the money to buy their product. Eventually, this gets so bad that businesses start to close, adding more to the list of jobless and more who can’t buy product. This takes somewhat of a domino effect because more unemployed add up and more businesses lose their customers, and overall the depression gets worse and worse, the only solution is to find new ways to create jobs like making new industries or creating programs like the Public works Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps who created jobs for men to do things like build parks, make murals, create music and art, start reforestation, and many other environmentally desirable activities. In document 1, a picture of a popular relief restaurant, it shows how hundreds of hungry men and women line up outside of a restaurant offering 20 meals for only $1. This demonstrates that many people were too poor to get food at regular prices; meaning businesses were definitely not succeeding. Thus, there is a need for relief programs to help get businesses back running so that they can provide much needed jobs.