The United States' Rise To A World Power After 1930

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in this time of gloom.
The president then turned his attention to industry and farm workers. He enforced strict regulation of business and provided money for public buildings, bridges and tunnels through the National Industry Recovery Act. The Agricultural Adjustment Act compensated farmers for not producing at the top of their ability. This was to help raise both wages and prices of commodity and farm products.
In 1934 the depression had been somewhat halted, but the nation had a long way to go to full recovery. A year later Roosevelt enforced the second New Deal including the right for workers to join any union to be able to bargain with employers. It also launched the very important Social Security Act, which provided financial aid to the old, disabled and unemployed.
By now the New Dealers had introduced and stabilized the idea that the government should not only cure social crises, but to actually take action to prevent them. It was the government's responsibility to see to ...

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