USA HISTORY

THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The New Deal was divided into 3 categories:relief for immediate help, reform to fix problems, and ____ to help the people and nation “get back on their feet”.
A
reinvent
B
radicalize
C
recovery
D
reissue
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president in 1933, he came into the White House with a plan. The New Deal had three goals: relief, recovery, and reform. Relief meant that the president wanted to help those in crisis immediately by creating jobs, bread lines, and welfare.

Detailed explanation-2: -These programs became known as the New Deal, a reference taken from a campaign speech in which he promised a “new deal for the American people.” The New Deal focused on three general goals: relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform.

Detailed explanation-3: -Their coalition has splintered over time, but many of the New Deal programs that bound them together-Social Security, unemployment insurance and federal agricultural subsidies, for instance-are still with us today.

Detailed explanation-4: -The New Deal programs were known as the three “Rs"; Roosevelt believed that together Relief, Reform, and Recovery could bring economic stability to the nation. Reform programs focused specifically on methods for ensuring that depressions like that in the 1930s would never affect the American public again.

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