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New Deal Dbq Outline

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Analyze the responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change the role of the federal government?

Thesis Statement: During Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, his administration helped and tried to solve the problems of the Great Depression. He caused the government to play a very important role in society and from their help many people responded with their opinion of what they felt about it.

Document A:
• in Document A it discusses about women during the Great Depression
• FDR and his administration helped keep women’s condition very well  women didn’t suffered as much as the other people o “…not many women in the bread line…”  …show more content…

is pushing its powers  believed the government is doing too much now
• “The authority of the federal government may not be pushed to such an extreme”

Document G:
• people believed that the government now is overdoing things  they are getting too involved with workers and union  government gave worker’s the right to form unions and collect bargains  businesses and employers didn’t like this, said the government is overdoing it
• “…have no right to transgress the law which gives to the workers the right of self-organization and collective bargaining”

Document H:
• the government needed to take such radical moves to solve problems of the Great Depression  the government is the main key to helping the nation through the Great Depression  changing the Supreme Court and adding new justices  bettered the Supreme Court
• “The government as an instrument of democratic action in the future has also been strengthened and renovated”
• “The Courts, too, have been revived...”
• “…excellent new appointments, so that we now have a Supreme Court which is abreast of the times”

Document I:
• FDR tried to relief the blacks from the Great Depression but he didn’t have the intention to deal with social injustices  he did help provide some blacks jobs, but didn’t deal with social injustice because he didn’t want to lose the support from the Southern Democrats
• “…Roosevelt administration has tried to include the Negro in nearly every phrase of its program for the people

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