Question

Why did President Roosevelt need to create a Second New Deal?

Answer 1

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Why did President Roosevelt need to create a Second New Deal?

Answer: The economy continued to struggle with high unemployment rates and widespread poverty.

Answer 2

The economy continued to struggle with high unemployment rates and widespread poverty.

The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the United States, it lasted a whole decade. As soon as Roosevelt entered the Presidency in 1933, he enacted his first New Deal programs but he soon noticed it would be necessary a second one.

At the time, in 1935, more than ten millions of people were unemployed, millions of Americans were struggling to survive and 1/3 of the banks had failed. Franklin Roosevelt's "Second New Deal" aimed to provide relief to those most in need through the creation of governmental reforms and agencies.