Angela’s Ashes Dbq

Would you ever leave your hometown behind along with everything and everyone you ever knew to start a new life in a different land? The McCourts are a poor Irish family that move from Manhattan, New York back to there homeland in Ireland to be with there family and in Ireland to be with there family and in hopes of pursing a better life. The McCourts made the wrong decision when they decided to move back to Ireland because America was just starting to get back on its feet and become more stable, there were a lot of job opportunities and unions coming up in Ireland so there was really no opportunity for change.

For example, America was just starting to get back on its feet and become more stable.President Roosevelt started to put an end to America’s deep economic depression by closing all of the banks. President Roosevelt had to try a number of different ideas to try and get the economy back on its feet. For all those people which was pretty much everyone, who didn’t have food, he had sort of like food lines set up, so that families could be feed so America wouldn’t starve.He made Acts for farmers and factory workers so they would only have to produce and certain amount of product and still be profited from it.Then after awhile, he re-openened the banks so people could deposit money and only take a certain amount of money out at a time.Instead of keeping the wages high and steady like Hoover did he lower them, so more jobs could then be available and then more people could work and be able to provide for their families and what not.Unlike President Hoover, President Roosevelt had compassion for the ordinary citizens of America.

In America, in New York, “you had loads of employment agencies”(Hoobler).

Another example is that there were a lot of job opportunities that were becoming available.President Roosevelt took various steps to help America get out of its economic depression, when one idea didn't

work he simply just went on to the next one. One of the things that President Roosevelt did to build up the number of available jobs was put certain programs and Acts into order so that there could be more jobs available, so people could be paided. In the DVD that we watched in class, they talked about how President Roosevelt made these programs to get people jobs and how more people started to join the unions(The Great Depression). More people started to join the unions that were now in effect, so people were less weary of taking certain jobs or what now, because now they would be protected with the union.If the McCourts just would have stayed in America then they would have had a better life, because Malachy would have been able to get a job and possibly join a union through one of the programs which President Roosevelt