4. How successful was the New Deal?
Roosevelt introduced a series of proposals which tackled the problems of the Depression in a radically different way to any previous actions of a US government. For the first time, the federal government began to take responsibility for its citizens; Hoover's ideas of 'laissez-faire' and relying on 'rugged individualism' were now abandoned. Roosevelt had promised the people of America a 'New Deal' and now he was...