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The Great Depression and //The Banking Crisis//

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=The Great Depression and the New Deal= The Great Depression was more then just a hard time for American’s. It was a time when people were afraid to trust the government. People were afraid to put money into things because they didn’t want to lose their money. It was a time when people had to live on the streets because they couldn’t afford a house. The banking crisis was kind of the icing on the cake of everything. The stock market had crashed, but when the banking crisis happened American went down hill. People quit putting money in the bank for the bank to spend. The bank needed to spend money on stocks and things to get them money to make sure they don’t fail and lose millions of dollars. For them to put money into the stocks would make money and put the stock market back on its feet. So since people were putting money in banks over 9,000 banks failed alone in the thirties alone. It was a time when people would move to labor camps to work hard enough to barely get enough to eat. It was an extremely hard time.

Not everyone is going to agree with things the president says. The supreme court was one of them. They declared some of the projects unconstitutional without giving a good reason to why they were. Other people who criticized the new deal said that it did way to much. That he should get rid of some of the programs so the currency would get better. Others said that he wasn’t doing enough things to the rich who had money. They said that he should tax the rich more so he could give more money to pour so they could get back on their feet. Some Liberals said that it wasn’t doing enough. That the government should pay older people over 60 $200 a month as long as they spent it. Then there was the third party of people that said that all FDR wanted to do was control things. So they created a third party candidate that ran against FDR, but they failed because they weren’t strong enough. There was a lot of people who didn’t agree with the New Deal.

Others were saying that what FDR was doing eased so many big problems. He was doing above and beyond the call of duty. All of his programs for reforming the work union, and then social security. He just kept going with it. I feel that it really did work. He just kept coming up with more things to do the longer he was in office. He really helped us get out of the Depression, and get back to being a big world power.
 * What opposition was there to Roosevelt's New Deal? What role did the Supreme Court play in balancing what America needed and what was Constitutionally allowed (see "Roosevelt and the New Deal" page 780)?
 * Re-read Legacy of the New Deal" pages 792-93. What perspectives are there on the effectiveness of the New Deal? How well did it work?

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