Unit 2 Essay: The New Deal

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Unit Essay: The New Deal

The New Deal

The decade following the end of WWI was one of great prosperity for the United States; This era, dubbed by historians "The Roaring Twenties" or the "Jazz Age" was a blur of stock speculation, revolution in music and culture, and a prohibition that was mostly ignored. Unfortunately for Americans and the world, the Roaring Twenties came to an abrupt end with the stock market crash of 1929, and the world plunged into a Great Depression that destroyed economies, lives, and hope. While Herbert Hoover seemed to offer no solution to the Great Depression, in the election of 1932 Franklin Roosevelt promised the Americans a "New Deal" if elected, and he followed through on the promise with a series of programs designed to fight the depression that fundamentally altered the relationship between citizen and state. Using your knowledge of this era, pick three aspects of Roosevelt's New Deal and write an essay of 600 words or more explaining how the New Deal altered the traditional relationship between government and its citizens that had existed prior to the Great Depression.

Here is a list of New Deal programs that you may use and describe in your essay:

List of New Deal Programs. Several programs listed with a very brief description of what it does.

New Deal Agencies. List of New Deal agencies categorized into relief, recovery, and reform

FDR's New Deal. Much longer list of the New Deal programs, but no categorization.

The New Deal Wikipedia article on the New Deal discussing some of its implications