DRAFT.... The New Deal's light on America's future

During the 1930s America suffered one of the greatest economic failures in its history. Yet the United States government had to find a way out; a way that would jolt the economy back to life as well as the peoples rolls in the country. Warren Susman explains how the people of America in the 1930s came together through a combined collective cultural mix that would become the “American culture”. Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President in March of 1933. He promised the American people a way out of the decade long mess called the New Deal. Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use public speeches, the Great depression, and associations to help Americans favor and support his New Deal.

President Roosevelt before elected was the Governor of New York. He had promised the People of America during his campaign, saying "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." The New Deal would provide projects, bail out to large corporations and banks, saving and creating new jobs for every American. Yet was the New Deal affective the ways it was planed or did the New deal just enlarge the Federal deficit?

Speeches publicly and on the radio by Roosevelt would take place to help the American people understand the necessity of the New Deal. This would inform the public about the progress and that would take place. Helping Americans have a greater understanding of what the New Deal offered. If the country was to survive and progress forward, something had to happen to the country and fast. This something would be the New Deal.

The Great depression was Roosevelt’s ammunition towards the New Deal taking off. Because the American people had suffered so long from the loss of jobs, and the rise of inflation, people had become desperate. This meant that it was not that hard to convince the public, promising anything that would better there lives’ would sound appealing. The New Deal to Americans was looked upon as something that could pull them out of the Great depression. This plan would help bring back the thriving American economy that once flourished not so long ago. Yet not only did Roosevelt have to convince the public, but the congress would have to agree with the New Deal as well.

The New Deal would create associations and organizations that would help prevent the economic disaster from happening again. Associations like the National Reserve Association would take care of banks that are in trouble. This would make sure that the assets of the bank are covered if any losses were to acure at anytime. The New Deal would do many other things as to help the government create more jobs. While the Government is creating new government sectors that would protect the country from economic disaster, it is creating the need for people to fill these positions. This ultimately helps the government take care of two problems at the same time, instead of taking care of only one issue.

The New Deal ultimately became favored by the American people through these three reasons as well as a few others. Yet the question is did the New Deal help Americas economy and the people out of the Great depression? That answer is yes with a few minor details. The New Deal helped bring the economy back to life. Yet because of the enormous amount of spending, the resection ended up lasting longer then if the New Deal never came about. Prolonging the recovery of Americas financial dept, but also bringing out the country from a strained economy that affected the lives of millions of Americans.

Entrepreneurship And Education in the Immigrant world

During the late 1800s through the 1940s immigrants traveled to the United States from all parts of the world. Immigrants traveled from all walks of life, religions, customs, and races by boat to start a new life or escape from persecution. Yet Americans had accepted the new comers but at the same time found the idea of new immigrants to be fearsome and possibly a threat to America’s future. The majority of immigrants who had traveled to find a better life ended up living the same life just on another continent. Ghettos were created all over New York due to the increasing migration of Immigrants. Yet instead of living to the low expectation and complying with what the idea of their roles would be, many immigrants took it upon themselves to go after the “American Dream”. Immigrants looked towards entrepreneurship and education as a way out of the Ghetto and to be accepted by the American people as one of their own. Immigrants worked hard to gain enough money to start a business, go to college, travel to the west, marry, leave the Ghetto, and pursue the life every man and woman in America, immigrant or not, dreams of.

Immigrants came to the New World with hopes of gaining riches and living a life that Americans seem to live so well. Yet the majority of immigrants that were entering the United States had either no or very little education. The main source of income that they were used to was earned by their sweet, hands, and the blisters on their feet that came with it. Manual labor was the main occupation of immigrants, becoming skilled at his or her profession and working most of their lives to support their family and self. Family’s who had a religious figure or scholar in the household had to provide for the father. In Anzia Yezierska’s novel the “Bread Givers” that is exactly the case. The father, who is a Jewish scholar of the Torah, is provided for by his wife and young daughters while he educates himself throughout the day. Yet the majority of immigrant families had every member work, from the father to the youngest chilled; working to bring in ends meet.

The dream of every immigrant in the United States was to start a business and become wealthy. If that was not the case, it was very close to it; as long as they moved up in the social class. Entrepreneurship was something every immigrant seeked on accomplishing. This was a great deal to immigrants seeking a better life; to own and operate your own business meant riches and respect from immigrants within the community. “In America, a man can get rich quick if he only has a head for business” (Yezierska, 111). This passage shows how the father in “Bread Givers” relates wealth with business. The majority of immigrants worked for other immigrants or by peddling goods around busy streets in higher class areas. The joy to run a business in the United States by an immigrant can be felt by Sarah’s mother after her father purchases a convenient store, “The sun is beginning to shine for us. After all our black years, we lived to see our own bought store in America!” (Yezierska, 116).

Yet owning a business or even starting one was not a task that was easy. Many immigrants would go through life only wishing and hoping to see that one day that would never come. The saying “you have to have money, to make money” made its self clear during that time. Businesses like jewelry stores, shoe stores, grocery stores, attracted many immigrants and proved very profitable. Immigrants would start at a low paying job, shifting from one job to another. There was no credit system at that time, so immigrants could only start their business on cold hard cash. That meant if you didn’t have it, you could not have it either until you did.

Education was not the most profitable way of making a living but it was a respectable and a highly sought attribute. It was something that most immigrant children were deprived of due to having to work and support the family’s needs. One way for an immigrant to gain respect and a good living was to go to college. Yet most immigrants were not financially able to attend classes or they had jobs with ungodly hour jobs that held them from doing anything but work all day. Yet those who were able to do so had a rough time in doing both school and work. Even with that said, the majority of immigrants did not have any schooling background. Therefore he or she would have to complete and make up for courses and then apply for a collage that would accept them. Not only did they have to apply to many schools, they had to make sure that they could afford to at the end of the day pay for their education and feed themselves as well.

Going to college meant that you would have to move or live away from the family. Being that most immigrant families were very family oriented women had a tougher time leaving the house then did men. The females in the house were to only leave the household if she was married. This posed a problem to many immigrant women who wanted to live the American life, to be able to pick the man you marry as well as a dependant life. In Yezierska’s story, Sarah does not believe in complying with old family traditions that interfere with her dreams of becoming a school teacher. At the Age of 17 she leaves her family to live on her own and go to school. This was not something that was allowed, yet the urge to learn and become a true American who could provide a steady income and live amongst other Americans; would drive the action of an immigrant woman to go against all odds, even her family. Yet, both immigrant men and women seeked knowledge to better their lives and leave the ghetto that had once held them down.