The New Deal

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In this article, the writer introduces, discusses and analyzes the topic of American history. Specifically, the writer discusses President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and the New Deal. The writer explains that in order to combat the Great Depression when he took office in 1933, FDR implemented the New Deal. The writer notes that this program helped get America back on its feet and back to work, and had a lasting effect on American history. The writer maintains that, in fact, this program was one of the most revolutionary and forward thinking in American history. The writer concludes that while not all the programs were successful, overall, the New Deal helped get the nation back on its feet, and it put hundreds of thousands of people back to work.

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"The New Deal affected the growth of the US in many ways. First, it helped hundreds of thousands of unemployed people find employment. The Works Progress Administration, which Roosevelt created early in 1935, managed projects in the arts, including theater, writing, photography, and music. The program helped put thousands of artists back to work while beautifying buildings, cataloging historic documents and records, and creating programs for the public. Including the arts and culture in the rebuilding of the nation was forward thinking and exceptionally successful, at least through the first years of the New Deal. It gave unemployed artists dignified employment again and added to the cultural foundations of the country."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Adams, Don and Arlene Goldbard. "New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy." The Institute for Cultural Democracy. 1995. 18 Oct. 2006.<http://www.wwcd.org/policy/US/newdeal.html>.
• Brinkley, Alan. "1 The New Deal Experiments." The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies. Ed. William H. Chafe. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 1-20. Questia. 18 Oct. 2006 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=99839073>.
• Eden, Robert, ed. The New Deal and Its Legacy Critique and Reappraisal. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Questia. 18 Oct. 2006 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=36224722>.
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