The New Deal (Click for more information)
During the 1932 election, American citizens chose Franklin D. Roosevelt, as they believed that he could more effectively combat the Great Depression than his opponent, President Herbert Hoover. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had initiated a New Deal and he was successful. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was capable and efficient in taking the U.S. out of economic, social, and political disaster. In perspective to the 3 R's: relief, recovery, and reform, the New Deal was highly successful in relief. It had saved the lives of millions of Americans from starving by the government checks people earned by working in new companies. However, in recovery, although the New Deal was successful in both short-term and long-term relief, unemployment remained high and economic growth was slow. In reform, by creating an activist state that provides security, the New Deal drastically changed the relationship between the capitalist market, the people, and their government. In Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal was very effective, it not only pulled the United States out of disaster, but it also laid the foundation for stability and prosperity in the future.
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little… I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clothed, ill-nourished"
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt