6.1: The New Deal and the Role of Government

Paired Sources from U.S. History, 1877-present
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Abstract

When the stock market crashed in 1929, the economy did not crash overnight. Instead there was a slow slide to the bottom that overwhelmed President Herbert Hoover’s 1932 re-election bid—and likely would have done the same to any other politician running on the Republican ticket. The Democratic candidate, Franklin D. Roosevelt, introduced the term New Deal during that campaign, but he offered little detail about which laws he would recommend or programs he would create as part of this effort when he became president. During the first hundred days of his presidency, a compliant Congress passed a whole slew of efforts aimed at promoting relief, reform, and economic recovery during a years-long crisis that would become known as the Great Depression.

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