Question

What were the goals of the New Deal??

Answer 1

Goals of the New Deal:
1) giving relief to the needy
2) reforming the financial system
3) recovering the U.S. economy during the Great Depression

Answer 2

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Answer 3

FDR wanted to accomplish with the New Deal:
-Relief to the jobless
Around that time 25% of American workers didn't have jobs! So FDR was trying to help these people out. Literally, people were starving to death because that's how poor they were
-Economic recovery
The nation was in an awful spot economically, so he was trying to get the economy back up, passing acts such as the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, was raised tariffs [taxes on foreign goods. So other countries such as England and France would have to pay taxes to sell their products in America, this ended up NOT being successful actually]
-Banking and other business reform
A LOT of banks were shut down because of people not paying their loans, etc. So a lot of banks had to shut down, meaning a lot of people just lost the money they had in banks. He succeeding in making a minimum wage, maximum work work, and establishing child labor laws. Before, people would work like 15 hour days, 6 days a week, little children as young as like 5 would be working in dangerous factories, and an employer could pay you as little as he wanted. We're talking like 5 cents an hour. [Read the novel The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, its all about that, and SUPER good!]