The New DealThe United States encountered many difficulties during the Great Depression (1929-1939). Poverty, unemployment, and desperation have clouded the “American Dream” and intensified the urgency for solutions to address and control damage nationwide. President Franklin Roosevelt proposed the New Deal to detoxify the nation from its suffering. It can be argued that the New Deal was ineffective due to the failure to end the Great Depression with its short-term solutions and, yet, created more problems; was successful in providing direct relief to the needy, economic recovery, and some structural reform for most of the general public during the severity of the Great Depression. In terms of relief, the New Deal provided many opportunities for well-intentioned families and individuals but had some unconstitutional or unnecessary flaws. For example, the Agricultural Adjustment Act, declared unconstitutional due to the controversy over the killing of livestock and crops when many citizens were starving. And like the FSA, it only granted 6,000 loans, considered very few compared to those who applied for them. These two factors supported historian Barton J. Bernstein who recognized the goals of the New Deal but thought it never came to fruition. He said it “failed to lift up the poor, failed to redistribute income [and] failed to extend equality.” But unlike the AAA and Bernstein's opinion, there were beneficial programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that provided unemployed conservation projects (jobs) to participate in, and the Home Owners Loan Corporation which and direct help to provide the needy with food, shelter and... middle of paper... artels, restricting business competition and limiting employment because they established codes for ideal business practices. They tried to define labor standards and minimum wages for the betterment of workers, but this greatly dissatisfied the owners of large companies. In conclusion, the New Deal succeeded in providing widespread relief, reform, and recovery, even when the economy was not expected to recover until World War II. The New Deal, as hoped, was able to provide jobs for countless people and established the necessary legislation to prevent future collapses and depressions. Under the terrifying and intense conditions and constraints of the Great Depression, President FDR's New Deal was not perfect, but it had the greatest impact of any other form of restoration and would not have raised public morale as much as the New Deal..