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  1. Sep 5, 2024 · New Deal, domestic program of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939, which took action to bring about immediate economic relief from the Great Depression as well as reforms in industry, agriculture, and finance, vastly increasing the scope of the federal government’s activities.

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  2. Oct 29, 2009 · Getty Images. The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. When ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › New_DealNew Deal - Wikipedia

    The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression. It was widely believed that the depression was caused by the inherent market instability and that government ...

  4. www.encyclopedia.com › us-history › new-dealNew Deal - Encyclopedia.com

    May 23, 2018 · NEW DEALNEW DEAL. The New Deal was a defining moment in American history comparable in impact to the Civil War [1]. Never before had so much change in legislation and policy emanated from the federal government [2], which, in the process, became the center of American political authority.

  5. Defining the “New Deal”. On July 2, 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president and pledged himself to a “new deal for the American people.” 1 In so doing, he gave a name not only to a set of domestic policies implemented by his administration in response to the crisis of the Great ...

  6. Certain New Deal laws were declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on the grounds that neither commerce nor taxing provisions of the Constitution granted the federal government authority to regulate industry or to undertake social and economic reform. Roosevelt differed with the Court and in 1937 sought to pack the court (or expand ...

  7. The New Deal. The main aim of the New Deal was to save American. capitalism. To do this, President Franklin D Roosevelt created a series of policies that saw the. federal. government intervene in ...

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