19 Facts About New Deal

1. New Deal was a US economic program by the administration of President Franklin D Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939.

2. New Deal established federal responsibility for the welfare of the US economy and the American people.

3. US President Franklin D Roosevelt's New Deal aimed to provide immediate economic relief and to bring about reforms to stabilize the economy.

4. The New Deal left a legacy of macroeconomic tools that would produce nearly full employment until the late 1960s.

5. The New Deal was a decisive wrong turn in American history that set the nation firmly on the road to collectivism and the creation of a Leviathan—the modern, insatiable, bureaucratic state.

6. New Deal helped alleviate problems caused by the Great Depression.

7. In some cases, the Supreme Court decided New Deal programs were unlawful.

8. The New Deal began with the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as President of the United States in 1933.

9. The New Deal is generally considered to have consisted of two phases.

10. The New Deal was a defining moment in American history comparable in impact to the Civil War.

11. The New Deal Left believed in participatory democracy and therefore rejected the autocratic machine politics typical of the big city Democratic organizations.

12. New Deal concluded that "the various populist, nativist, and rightist movements in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s fell distinctly short of fascism".

13. New Deal programs put millions of Americans immediately back to work or at least helped them to survive.

14. The New Deal preserved democracy in the United States in a historic period of uncertainty and crises when in many other countries democracy failed.

15. New Deal supported such New Deal programs as the minimum wage and public housing—he greatly expanded federal aid to education and built the Interstate Highway system primarily as defense programs.

16. New Deal proposed adding five new justices, but conservative Democrats revolted, led by the Vice President.

17. The New Deal produced a political realignment, making the Democratic Party the majority with its base in liberal ideas, the South, traditional Democrats, big city machines and the newly empowered labor unions and ethnic minorities.

18. New Deal programs included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of the presidency of Franklin D Roosevelt.

19. New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted by President Franklin D Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1936.