The United States was in the middle of the Great Depression when Roosevelt was elected. The banking system was in crisis, and almost a quarter of the workforce was unemployed. Salaries and wages for those still employed reduced drastically as the production did. President Roosevelt’s New Deal’s focus was to offer instant economic relief and bring about reforms to stabilize the economy. Therefore, the New Deal in Tennessee included public work administration, agriculture adjustment administration, civilian conservation corps, Tennessee recovery authority, national recovery administration, and the work progress administration.
The government agency decided to reduce unemployment and improve the purchasing power via the building of public building structures and highways. Being governed by the national industrial recovery act, the PWA was established by Roosevelt and controlled by his internal secretary’s governing body. During his tenure, the PWA used much money to build its educational structures, city halls, public health structures, law courts, sewage disposal, bridges, roads, and subways.
In the United States’ history, the New Deal’s strategy was to redeem agriculture development during the Great Depression and war by limiting farm output, declining export surpluses, and increasing cost. The Agricultural Balance Act was a compilation farm-relief bill exemplifying the structures of the great national farm corporations. The act aimed to restore the prices for agricultural produce to a point equal to purchasing power. However, the product credit corporation with agriculture storage and loan plan was implemented to enable price-aiding loans and purchase certain products.
Moreover, the Deal was established to advance farmers’ living standards, regulate rain overflows, advance navigation, and produce electrical power alongside the Tennessee River and its streams. The Tennessee River was prone to floods, and navigation was interfered with by a sequence of shoals. Therefore, the United States Congress authorized a bill implementing the Tennessee Valley Authority, TVA, hence incorporating all the events of different government agencies in the region and locating them under one’s governance. Consequently, a massive plan of constructing dams, flood-regulating projects, and hydroelectric generating stations was started. Therefore, the combination of a wide range of certain powers with a view of social accountability to the area made TVA essential as an example of natural resource planning.
Further, Roosevelt implemented the Deal was to fuel business recovery via just-exercise codes during the great depression and war. The National Recovery Administration, NRA, was a vital component of the NRA act. It allowed the president to incorporate industry board codes to eradicate unjust trade exercises, implement minimum and maximum wage hours, combat unemployment, and assure the workforce’s rights to bargain collectively.
Another great importance of the New Deal was to offer aid for several victims of the war and Great Depression and preserve their self-respect and skills. The economy would, in turn, be fuelled by the increased purchasing power of the newly recruited employees with a broad monthly salary. I see many similarities with today when the government establishes a project to improve a place’s livelihoods. Still, the set goals are not achieved, like the New Deal in Tennessee. The effects of the Great Depression never disappeared, unemployment continued, and farmers continued to face many challenges, and famine struck the place. Sometimes, the prevailing situation is beyond the ability of the government to eradicate the problem at once.
In conclusion, the election of Roosevelt seemed like a solution to the impacts of the Great Depression. In his 100 days, he passed legislation to pay commodity farmers to boost the prices. The New Deal improved the Tennessee River’s navigability, offering flood regulation, improving Agriculture, commerce, and industry, operating hydroelectric power stations, reducing unemployment, and constructing highways. However, the Deal could not overcome the challenges of the Great Depression.