Roosevelt’s success was rooted in his amiable personality; he had a way about him that assured Americans that, by following him, life would turn out good. When he was first elected President, Roosevelt assured the American people, in his inaugural addre

Roosevelt’s initial actions were, basically, only stopgaps, which aimed to gain more time for more comprehensive programs, such as the Agricultural Adjustment Act, or the AAA. In this act, producers of seven basic commodities, wheat, cotton, corn, hogs, rice, tobacco, and dairy products, would decide on production limits for their crops. The AAA would then tell individual farmers how much they should produce. This act helped bring about a rise in prices for farm products. In 1936, the Supreme Court struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act because the government had no authority to require farmers to limit production; however, after crafty rewording, the Roosevelt administration had passed a new act, the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. This law allowed the government to limit production to “conserve soil” and limit corrosion.

The New Deal, or, more specifically, the Second New Deal, was a dramatic point in the history of America. It allowed people to hope for something better coming out of the Great Depression. The New Deal, which was not new at all, allowed people to have a sense of possibility and opportunity in a world that had left them unemployed and broke for over one decade. This New Deal, moreover, gave Americans hope for change. Roosevelt developed a close relationship with America through his nightly chats and briefings, which gave Americans a sense of involvement. Clearly, the New Deal was successful in helping Americans “heal” after the Great Depression; it just did not help the economy as much as it should have. The ideals of the New Deal were not new at all. They were present with all Americans, and were present in the first, unsuccessful, New Deal. In the end, however, Roosevelt was successful in the true New Deal, the Second New Deal.

Roosevelt’s next action came to help recover industry. This new program, the National Industrial Recovery Act, was part of a new federal agency, called the National Recovery Administration, or the NRA. The NRA called on every business in the country to accept a temporary “blanket code,” or a minimum wage of between 30 and 40 cents per hour, with a maximum hour workweek and the abolition of child labor. Roosevelt claimed that adherence to this code would raise consumer purchasing power and increase employment. In the long run, however, the NRA was a failure because of the difficulty in adm

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