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The Achievement Of The New Deal Summary

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In his work The Achievement of the New Deal, author William E Leuchtenburg argues that when the great depression was shaking the stability of the American life, the new deal which is the policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt led America towards the light. He shows us the drastic change that the deal brought which was very controversial and brought positive socioeconomic changes. It shows how the American life changes and the economy flourished in America. Leuchtenburg was a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a brilliant scholar of the life of Roosevelt.
Leuchtenburg has written numerous books on the history of the twentieth century and has been the president of the American Historical Association, Organization …show more content…

There was need of new policies and things that would bring the country to stable economy. After there was a huge decrease in the stock market, there had been a time where millions of people were without jobs and fully depended on the government and also there was many bank failures and homelessness. In such a tough time Roosevelt stood his ground and helped the nation by taking the emergency measures at an instant. Despite working so hard the New Deal was often criticized as unprincipled and inconsistent. The New Deal was considered elitist as it had missed to consult the poor people about the legislation they wanted. As Roosevelt tried to save the large-scale corporate capitalism the other historian summed it up that the New Deal was an absolute failure and couldn’t solve the problem of depression, it couldn’t redistribute the income or extend equality or decrease the racial discrimination and segregation. Roosevelt took help from the university professors and experts as advisers who gave him ideas and helped him with the speeches. Roosevelt transferred the authority of the stock exchange from Wall Street to the Washington and the regulatory powers were increased of the Securities and Exchange …show more content…

The creative people like painters and the writers they were also fostered and given platforms for their arts to be shown. The writers and film makers got theaters to show their movies and the dramas. The colored artists also got opportunities to work in renowned places. The PWA planted millions of trees and there was also Roosevelt’s tree army helping in it. The farmers too got numerous help from the new deal though there was drought they got facilities of electricity and other things and their lands were not taken away by the banks. The black people began to get jobs after the new deal and different funds were allocated for the banks and schools to be established in the black neighborhoods. The black tenant farmers were made the proprietors. Various black members were in the cabinet and there was very extensive political modernization in among the black people. They began to get high positions in the government as well. The Roosevelt administration consisted of diversity of people from different ethnic backgrounds and religions

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