The Great Depression and the New Deal

The downturn of the economy was compounded by a big drought that caused dust bowl. Across all the states of America, their economic difficulties from the time the great depression hit. This Paper will delve into the mentioned depression while simultaneously discussing the Franklin Roosevelt’s new order that he pioneered. There was variation in timing and severity of the great depression were varied across the world. It was, in particular, longer and more severe in Europe and the United States. This had an implication of people losing their savings in those banks. Due to lack of money, or insufficiency of the same, many families could not afford a place that they could leave neither could they get adequate food that they could eat.

Many businesses were shut as the demand for their goods declined as people had little or no money to buy these things (Richardson et al. More than 12 million people in the USA had become unemployed by the time the depression was at its peak. Specifically, in Florida, over 90,000 families were affected by the depression. People are said to have waited in breadlines in every city and it was in 1931 that more than 20,000 people committed suicide. This was due to the hardship that they faced. The New Deal by President Roosevelt It was in 1933 when Franklin D. Roosevelt took the presidency in the United States. His presidency was popularly termed as the “new deal’ due to the promises that he gave bringing in an air of confidence and optimism to people who needed them most.

More than 40,000 people participated in the Civilian Conservation Corps. They were provided with food and clothing. Their paychecks could be sent home to take care of their families. In Florida, some of the work that the CCC did was to cut down trees that could be sued in the building of fire lines. CCC also planted about 13 million trees in the state of Florida and created many wildlife preserves and state parks. In 1933, an Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was passed and this was purposed to provide relief to the farmers (Richardson et al. Farmers were given subsidies that compensated them for the voluntary cutbacks that were experienced in production. The funds that were used for the payments would be generated from a tax that was levied on the industries that were in the business of processing crops (Richardson et al.