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The Great Depression and //Unemployment// =My Video=

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=The Great Depression and the New Deal=

Stock markets crashing, banks closing, the unemployed, poor and helpless filling the streets, dust everywhere; The Great Depression had set in. A time of emotional disarray, a wave of economic distress rippling throughout U.S. families. The well paid were devastated when the stock market crash came along smashing their fortune along with their futures plans. Farmers were in awe of the of the effects of the dustbowl that were ruining their livelihood and families financial income. The government was at a loss with the banking crisis, clueless about a solution after citizens found the banks so untrustworthy with their money. Unemployment was a major factor that triggered this economic all-time low. Unemployment rates in the U.S. had sky-rocketed to a whopping 25%. America had never witnessed such a slump; had never been so needy. The Nation was relying on Roosevelt to get them out.

Overall the outcome of the New Deal had mixed feelings from the public. Conservatives thought that the New Deal programs went too far and restricted individual freedoms while some liberals thought that it didn't help the poor enough like it promised. I think that the New Deal would have been pretty effective with all the different sorts of programs that were put into action.

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