How Did The New Deal Recover And Reform

The New Deal: Relief, Recover, and Reform Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Roosevelt was elected president after the United States of America had went through a national depression. How was he supposed to revive the country from the previous presidents, Herbert Hoover, failure to respond to human suffering (Faragher)? It was expected that the citizens of America would fear that another president would harm their country more. Franklin Delano Roosevelt did his utmost to nurture America through relief, recover, and reform in the New Deal. Roosevelt’s first form of nurturing was through relief. Relief was used to take immediate action to halt the economies progress of becoming worse into the depression. One relief act was the Federal Emergency Relief Act, or FERA. This act gave immediate help to citizens that needed help in the form of cash payments (Jackson). This was first introduced in May of 1942. Congress has authorized $500 million towards this act of relief. Half of the $500 million was sent as direct relief to the states while the rest of the money was used for
After 60 years of the federal program, millions of farm operations went out of business. It was deemed as a social tragedy through the eyes of farmers (Lotterman). The Agricultural Adjustment Administration was not successful in my eyes. It was deemed unconstitutional in 1937 by the Supreme Court. Although the programs helped give hope to the farming community, it still was not deemed constitutional to limit the supply of crops from the farmers. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration did however remain the basis for farm programs for the following 70 years. This was deemed successful because it was used as a basis for the following seventy years, but was unsuccessful in the way that it did not help the farmers and was deemed unconstitutional