New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs launched by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to solve the problems caused by the Great Depression. The New Deal is often split into two smaller New Deals: the First New Deal and the Second New Deal. During the First Hundred Days of Roosevelt's presidency, Roosevelt and his administration proposed many plans to fix the economy.
Percentage of non-agricultural workers in labor unions, 1930: 11.6% Percentage of non-agricultural workers in labor unions, 1937: 22.6% prcentage of non-agricultural workers in labor unions, 1945: 35.5% Percentage of non-agricultural workers in labor unions, 1999: 13.9%
CCC: Civilian Conservation Corps WPA: Works Progress Administration FDR: Franklin Delano Roosevelt AAA: Agricultural Adjustment Act TVA: Tennessee Valley Authority HOLC: Home Owners Loan Corporation FERA: Federal Emergency Relief Administration PWA: Public Works Administration CWA: Civil Works Administration NRA: National Recovery Administration
New Deal Media
US annual real GDP from 1910 to 1960, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–1939) highlighted
Unemployment rate in the United States from 1910–1960, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–1939) highlighted (accurate data begins in 1939)
1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression
Roosevelt's ebullient public personality, conveyed through his declaration that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and his "fireside chats" on the radio did a great deal to help restore the nation's confidence
Pumping water by hand from the sole water supply in this section of Wilder, Tennessee (Tennessee Valley Authority, 1942)
National Recovery Administration Blue Eagle
Manufacturing employment in the U.S. from 1920 to 1940
References
- Kennedy, David; Cohen, Lizabeth; Bailey, Thomas (2006). "The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933–1939". The American Pageant (13th ed.). United States: Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 0-618-47940-6.