Roosevelt’s Contribution and Limitations Flashcards

What were Roosevelt's three aims for the New Deal?

Relief, Recovery, and Reform.

The first 100 days when many laws were passed to tackle the crisis.

He closed banks for inspection, passed the Emergency Banking Act, and explained it on the radio.

Friendly radio talks that explained his plans and calmed people.

He set up government job programmes and public works to hire people.

It made the federal government more active in helping people and managing the economy.

A law that gave old-age pensions and unemployment insurance for the first time.

It left out many workers, like farm and domestic workers, and paid low benefits at first.

No. Unemployment stayed high and only fell fast with war spending.

He tried to add more Supreme Court judges; it failed and cost him support.

African Americans, women, and many farm and domestic workers often got less help.

The economy dipped in the Roosevelt Recession, showing the limits of his policy.