Relief,+Recovery,+Reform

=__Relief, Recovery, Reform__= toc Relief, Recovery, and Reform was used to help the people during the 1929 - 1945 time period. During this time, people were unemployed and poor because of the tough economic times. Relief and Recovery were paid the most attention to, because they were supposed to help people immediately.Reform was afterwards to try and clean up the damage that was done. They were all very important in helping our society and economy return to normal.

During the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States. He knew that people were going broke and hungry because the lack of jobs and money during this time period. Roosevelt decided to introduce something called the New Deal, which consisted of 3 programs that were supposed to produce "relief, recovery, and reform." Since people needed help fast, this was a good idea. It eventually led us out of the Great Depression.

Relief
Relief was the immediate response to the Great Depression; It had to be taken care of before anything else. People got relief in many ways, which usually were different programs (such as FERA, CWA, PWA, CCC, and HOLC). These different programs helped all sorts of people. The CCC helped young men find jobs to support themselves and family. The FCA helped farmers and provided them with low-interest loans. Some programs gave money directly to the government, or lowered mortgages to stop foreclosures. There was also something called the Bank Holiday. This closed all banks, and only the banks approved by the government could open again. The main goal of "Relief" was to give the unemployed jobs and money.

Recovery
Recovering the economy was a very important thing to get our country back on track again. If the economy never got better, then we would still be in a huge depression today. One program that tried to help during the recovery time period was the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act). This limited farm production to help raise prices, which was paid for by taxing food processors. But, in 1936 it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. However, the Roosevelt Administration insisted that business would have to ensure that the incomes of workers would rise along with their prices.

Reform
Reforming the country was the last thing to be done. It's goal was to make sure that the U.S.A. never fell into another depression. The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was a big help with this. It was published by Congress in 1933. To cut unemployment rates, the NIRA created the PWA, which was a major program of public works. From 1933- 1935 the PWA spent 3.3 billion with private companies to build 34,599 projects, some of which were pretty large. From then on, the economy started getting better and better until the U.S.A. was finally out of the Great Depression!

How They Helped
 The New Deal may not have been the only thing that helped America get out of the Great Depression, but it was one of the main reasons why it ended. World War II was the other main reason. (The U.S.A. needed people to make more weapons, which ended unemployment and brought jobs to hundreds of people.) Relief, Recovery, and Reform have also done many things that helped. They boosted consumption, thereby increasing production, reducing unemployment, and ending the Depression. Most of all, Relief, Recovery, and Reform aided people who would have otherwise been deprived during the Depression. Roosevelt made a good decision in using Relief, Recovery, and Reform in the New Deal.