Causes & Consequences of The Great Depression

The most powerful consequence of deepening depression was the massive unemployment across the United States. Roosevelt and congressional New Dealers called for new legislation to strengthen labor’s rights and for the first time, federal government guaranteed the right of American workers to join or form independent labor unions. Roosevelt who designed and pushed through an extraordinary number of acts through Congress between March and June of 1933, considered “The Hundred Days”. Others found the New Deal too timid in its measures. This criticism, along with others, came from popular leaders like well-known novelist and socialist Upton Sinclair, a retired doctor from California by the name of Francis E. Along with the Second New Deal came the landmark Social Security Act of 1935 , providing old-age pensions and unemployment insurance.

Despite Roosevelt’s first attempts to bring the United States out of the Great Depression, he received much criticism. Above all else, Collier became the driving force behind the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 which reversed the allotment provisions of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887. The BIA itself also employed Indian people increasing those employed from a few hundred in 1933 to more than 4. These acts came to be known as the New Deal, and were focused on reviving both the industrial and agricultural sectors of the economy, along with providing emergency relief for the unemployed. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) was also set up to provide immediate relief to the farmers of the nation. d sell later at a higher price once its perceived earning power would present itself.