According to each source, how successful was the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression?
A. |
"I can remember the first week of the CWA checks. It was on a Friday. That night everybody had gotten his check. The first check a lot of them had in three years...I never saw such a change of attitude. Instead of walking around feeling dreary and looking sorrowful, everybody was joyous. Like a feast day. They were toasting each other. They had money in their pockets for the first time." Hank Oettinger
quoted in Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel published 2006 |
B. |
"The people of this country want relief… I’m for the poor man – all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. ‘Every man a king’ – that’s my slogan.” Huey Long
1934 |
D. |
"The Presidents"
by the History Channel, 2005 |
E. |
“It seems very apparent to me that the Administration at Washington is accelerating it’s pace towards socialism and communism… a program continually promoting labor troubles, higher wages, shorter hours, and less profits for business, would seem to me to be leading us fast to a condition where the Government must more and more expand it’s relief activities, and will lead in the end to disaster to all classes.” Letter to Senator Robert Wagner
March 7, 1934 |
G. |
The March of TIme, by Time Inc.
1935 |
H. |
"As the financial catastrophe of the 1930s worsened with each passing year, leading economists were at a loss to explain why the nation's economy could not right itself. "Deficit Spending"
Economics in History, McDougal Littell, Inc. 2006 |
J. |
"[But the} most important contribution of the Roosevelt administration to the age-old color line problem in America has the been its doctrine that Negroes are a part of the country and must be considered in any program for the country as a whole. The inevitable discriminations notwithstanding, this thought has been driven home in thousands of communities by a thousand specific acts. For the first time in their lives, government has taken on meaning and substance for the Negro masses.” The Roosevelt Record
Editorial in “The Crisis” November 1940 |