Great Depression

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The Great Depression was a big issue in the life of Eleanor. When Franklin went into office in 1933. The depression was still going on. Unemployment had gone up from 8 to 15 million. Thousands of people were out in the streets looking for jobs to feed themselves and sum a whole family. Times were very difficult. That’s when Eleanor came into the picture as the first lady of the world. She actually cared about the people and wanted to help them. People used to write letters to her asking for help. There was so many letters they even wrote a book on all of them, it was called “Dear Mrs. Roosevelt”. She did a lot of deeds to help out the people. Eleanor and Franklin made a plan for the country and it was “The New Deal”.

The New Deal was a promise to the people of America that everything will be better and would go back to normal. Of course like every other plan or program it takes time. It had many goals as in: banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs. Then the new deal had new plans and it included union protection programs, the Social Security Act, and programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers. The New Deal is why today we have unions, benefits, and all those other protection for the employers so we could never suffer a great depression again. That deal is all thank to Eleanor and her ambition to work for the peoples needs.

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