DBQ on The Great DepressionIn the 1920's many people prosper and become rich. More and more people had invested in the stock market on credit. Many people had thought this would never end yet it ends in 1929. In this essay there will be what the people did in the Great Depression, what Roosevelt did to help them, if the New Deal help or not, and the long term effect of the Great Depression and the New Deal on the United States.Firstly, when the stock market crashed it shocked many people and they thought why did this happen. Many people had to find jobs, food, and homes to live because the depression left m ...view middle of the document...
In Document 3, Roosevelt reassured the people and not to worry and they will get out of this mess. The New Deal had many things that helped the people. It gave jobs, homes, food, and many other things. They did this by making many programs. In Document 4, Harry Hopkins, head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration spend a lot of money on the unemployment. In Document 6, the bottles represented all the programs Roosevelt made. There were at least 20 bottles. In Document 7, there were 6,333 Projects made from the programs that help people. In Document 8, a chart of some programs was listed. Many helped the jobless like the CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps.Then, the New Deal had another part in it. It was to prevent another Depression like this one. They did this by setting up the FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Many programs from the New Deal are still in today like TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority and SSA, Social Security Act. The New Deal's long-term effects are Social Security protects millions of Americans, high and low wages continue to have different kinds of protection, Americans have economic safeguards provided by the government. The long-term effects on the Great Depression were not much.In conclusion, many people were poor and jobless in the Great Depression. Roosevelt and the New Deal did to help the people. The long-term effect of the Great Depression and the New Deal on the United States were few.