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Chapter 26: The New Deal


Main Themes

Main Themes

1. How Franklin Roosevelt, although limited by his basically traditional economic views, pushed through programs of economic planning and Depression relief.

2. How popular protests against New Deal policies, protests from rightists, leftists, and those who defied categorization, inspired Roosevelt to launch a new burst of action known as the Second New Deal.

3. That despite Roosevelt's overwhelming reelection in 1936, the New Deal was virtually moribund by 1938, thanks to increasing conservative opposition, his own political blunders, and continuing hard times.

4. That the New Deal helped give rise to a new role for the national government as a "broker state" among various organized interests.


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