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New Deal
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
HISTORIANS
THE EFFORTS AT RECOVERY
THE WELFARE STATE
WORKERS
INFRASTRUCTURE
ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIMITATIONS
THE ANTI-STATIST COALITION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Origin and Design
The New Deal in Action
Resistance and Realignment
The Final Phase
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliography
FURTHER READING
further readings
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New Deal

Content: He cheerfully, albeit unsystematically, sought federal government remedies and, if necessary, federal government coercion to tackle the Depression. As a result, American citizens who had had so little experience with the federal government now saw it deeply interwoven in their daily lives. Between 1933 and 1938 the New Deal that Roosevelt had promised the American people when he accepted the Democratic nomination in 1932 profoundly altered the relationship between individuals and their government and shaped the political economy of the United States for the next fifty years. American farmers were told what they could and could not plant by federal officials. They received checks for not planting crops, or even for destroying what they had already planted. Many had access to electricity for the first time. Farm owners, like homeowners across the nation, renegotiated their mortgages with federal agencies. Tenants could borrow to buy their own farms. Millions of workers were employed by the government on public works and work relief projects. They voted in federal elections for union representation.