Title: Social Welfare History Project The New Deal
Headings: The New Deal
The New Deal
President Roosevelt’s New Deal
By Catherine A. Paul
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Content: Social Welfare History Project The New Deal
The New Deal
in: Eras in Social Welfare History, Great Depression
President Roosevelt’s New Deal
By Catherine A. Paul
“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
William Gropper’s “Construction of a Dam” (1939)
Photo: United State Department of the Interior
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Photo: FDR Library
The New Deal was enacted from 1933 to 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide immediate economic relief from the Great Depression and to address necessary reforms in industry, agriculture, finance, water power, labor, and housing. The New Deal was grounded in the belief that the power of the federal government was needed to lift America from the Great Depression (Library of Congress, n.d.). These programs signaled both an expansion of federal power and a transformation in the relationship between the federal government and the American people (Hopkins, 2011). Public Works Administration Project: Bonneville Power and Navigation Dam, Oregon
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