Answer to Question #108467 in History for rosa jimenez

Question

As a result of the great depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised a "new deal" for Americans. What did he mean by this? who were some of Roosevelt's critics and what did they find problematic despite his major reforms?

Answer 1

Roosevelt promised recovery from the Great Depression through passage of banking reform laws, emergency relief, work relief, and agricultural programs. He was criticized by mostly women and the underdeveloped for his economic policies, especially the shift in tone from individualism to collectivism with the dramatic expansion of the welfare state and regulation of the economy.