On Black Tuesday the stockmarket crashed and it began the Great Depression, and Hoover was expected to put the nation back on its feet, but he failed. Roosevelts New Deal during the hundred years was the solution to the people’s call. Roosevelt's administration was effective in curtailing the Great Depression, solving disputes occurring during WWII, and it left a lasting legacy in the role of the federal government by creating lasting programs, satisfying many of the needs of the citizens and increasing the federal government power. Roosevelt's administration was successful in slashing the Great Depression by leaving a lasting legacy in the role of Federal government by creating lasting programs, satisfying many of the needs of the citizens.
Even in the nation that prided itself on the migratory nature of its settlers and founding fathers, the people of the Great Depression were oppressed in their own land of birth. The Great Depression and the United States economy breakdown happened under the presidency of Herbert Hoover. When it came time for President Hoover to run for presidency again he wouldn’t run, so Franklin D. Roosevelt ran and won by a landslide. He changed many things in his term such as not letting banks reopen until they were stabilized and he then established the New Deal. The New Deal was a bunch of established programs which helped to curb the unemployment by hiring people for various projects.
Knowing this, Truman tried to do as much as he could to help such as desegregating the armed forces, the acts of fair employment in the civil service and the fair deal programme which included building houses in urban areas. However many of his attempts failed due to under funding, lack of support and poorly conceived housing. Ingrained racism wasn't stopped either as Truman was not comprehensive enough to deal with the racism that existed at all levels of American society. Nevertheless Truman did accomplish some change as due to his power in government he was able to appoint Blacks into important American roles, including Bunche as a UN ambassador and Hasie as a federal judge. This shows that Truman helped improve the status of black people by making people aware of the racist situations and showing how some black people can be put in a higher position and prove they're just as smart as other Americans.
It was the events and the attention they brought, as well as other politically based protests such as the Children’s Crusades that resulted in the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. Although the bill marked progress in the movement, it was far from over, with the events of Bloody Sunday a year later showing how entrenched in racism society was. Protestors have always used different methods to help their issues, and the civil rights protestors of the 1960s were no different. The African American community turned to both tested and new protest methods to bring about civil rights at that time. The events that took place because of this are what allowed the Civil Rights Movement to advance, and are, therefore, the reason why there is a far greater level of equality amongst races in America
Some of these programs still in use are the urban transportation systems MARTA and BART, Highway Beautification, and Head Start (doc 6, 201-202). Roosevelt created Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to aid the elderly, and Johnson improved upon all of these programs, and more, to create “remarkable… achievements with older Americans” (doc. 6, 203). As Roosevelt had aimed to give Americans jobs and reduce poverty through programs such as the Works Progress Administration and Public Works Administration, Johnson successfully lowered the percentage of Americans below poverty from 22.2 percent to 12.1 percent and lowered the percentages of people below 125 percent of the poverty line by an even greater margin from 1960 to 1969 (doc. 8, 211-212).
The New Deal led to a huge change in American economy at the time. The amount of unemployed people was halved. But the national total of personal income fell by $13 billion, this shows how the money in the economy was spread around the people in a fairer way than in my opinion at any time in American history. Unfortunately, many black people and extremely poor people stayed poor and barely improved their life quality at all throughout this time despite Huey Long’s efforts. Overall, the New Deal did improve America and its prosperity.
Once upon a time in America government was greater than Big Business. Uncle Sam looked at “Ma Bell” and said, “You are too big and powerful”, and broke her up into tiny pieces. They had done this before with great success. America believed in capitalism but not in monopolies. America had a tendency to fight for the little guy and many advances were made toward helping the little guy keep from being run over by corporations and the so-called “robber barons” of big business.
Since early 1950s, black Americans have faced a lot of discrimination, especially in the South, after the Jim Crow law. The civil rights movement was a political, legal and social protest by Black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. This movement has tackled every fields in the life in America with the support of organizations and most importantly, media. At the begin of the movement, there were a lot of campaigns, sit-ins and protest against the segregation system. However, many were left unsolved mainly because of disenfranchisement and the still prejudice of white people.
To a certain extent I believe that the impact of the 1st World War was beneficial to the economy and society of the USA. However, on the other hand I don’t agree with the statement as some problems did occur in the society and economy of the USA. It can be argued that the impact of the 1st World War was important on the economy, especially employment. This is a strong argument because during the war employment increased to an extent where 1.3 million jobs were created. It could be argued that this was due to America’s neutrality to the war until April 1917 causing the USA not to have any war damage and this changed America’s economy as they replaced Britain and London as the USA and New York became the Financial Centre of the world.
Civil Rights movement began officially 1955-1968 , the movement began as African Americans were being discriminated against. Martin Luther king jr and Malcolm X rose to influence the fight for African Americans. Martin Luther king jr and Malcolm X who although wanted to fight against discrimination had different ways of approaching the cause .For example , Malcolm wanted to fight back through violence and Martin Luther King jr he believed that violence was not that answer . This was known as the Civil rights movement. The Civil Rights movement was a political movement was the moment rising between the whites and the African Americans.