Title: New Deal - Programs, Social Security & FDR - HISTORY
Headings: New Deal
New Deal
Contents
New Deal for the American People
“First of all,” he said, “let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
The First Hundred Days
Second New Deal
The End of the New Deal?
The New Deal and American Politics
PHOTO GALLERIES
New Deal Programs
Farm Security Administration’s Resettlement Administration Photographs

Content: New Deal - Programs, Social Security & FDR - HISTORY
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Updated: Nov 27, 2019
Original: Oct 29, 2009
New Deal
Author: History.com Editors
Contents
New Deal for the American People
The First Hundred Days
Second New Deal
The End of the New Deal? The New Deal and American Politics
PHOTO GALLERIES
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 Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of experimental New Deal projects and programs, such as the CCC, the WPA, the TVA, the SEC and others. Roosevelt’s New Deal fundamentally and permanently changed the U.S. federal government by expanding its size and scope—especially its role in the economy. New Deal for the American People
On March 4, 1933, during the bleakest days of the Great Depression, newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address before 100,000 people on Washington’s Capitol Plaza. “First of all,” he said, “let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”