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Terms & NamesTerms & NamesMAIN IDEAMAIN IDEA

A New Deal Fights the Depression

After becoming president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt used government programs to combat the Depression.

Americans still benefit from programs begun in the New Deal, such as bank and stock market regulations and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

WHY IT MATTERS NOWWHY IT MATTERS NOW

Hank Oettinger was working as a printing press operator in a small town in Wisconsin when the Great Depression began. He lost his job in 1931 and was unemployed for the next two years. In 1933, however, President Roosevelt began creating work programs. Through one of these pro- grams, the Civil Works Administration (CWA), Oettinger went back to work in 1933. As he later recalled, the CWA was cause for great celebration in his town.

A PERSONAL VOICE HANK OETTINGER “ I can remember the first week of the CWA checks. It was on a Friday. That night everybody had gotten his check. The first check a lot of them had in three years. . . . I never saw such a change of attitude. Instead of walking around feeling dreary and looking sorrowful, everybody was joyous. Like a feast day. They were toasting each other. They had money in their pockets for the first time.”

—quoted in Hard Times

Programs like the CWA raised the hopes of the American people and sparked great enthusiasm for the new president. To many Americans, it appeared as if the country had turned a corner and was beginning to emerge from the nightmare of the Great Depression.

Americans Get a New Deal The 1932 presidential election showed that Americans were clearly ready for a change. Because of the depression, people were suffering from a lack of work, food, and hope.

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The Civil Works Administration enabled these men to get jobs repairing typewriters and sewing machines.

•Franklin Delano Roosevelt

•New Deal •Glass-Steagall Act •Federal Securities Act

•Agricultural Adjust- ment Act (AAA)

•Civilian Conser- vation Corps (CCC)

•National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

•deficit spending •Huey Long

One American's Story