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The New Deal was a 1933–1938 series of economic, social, and political reforms in response to the Great Depression in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He introduced the phrase
Top left: Signing of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, 1933 Top right: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Bottom: Works Progress Administration public mural
1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies
Roosevelt's ebullient public personality, conveyed through his declaration that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and his "fireside chats" on the radio did a great deal to help restore the nation's confidence
Public Works Administration Project Bonneville Dam
Reagan era
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The Reagan era or the Age of Reagan is a periodization of United States history used by historians and political observers to emphasize that the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronal
New Deal
…operations, students quit school and housewives joined the labor force. Legacy New Deal Era 1930s–1970s Great Depression - System of 1896 1964–1980 - Reagan Era The New Deal was the inspiration for President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society in the 1960s: Johnson (on right) headed the Texas NYA and was elected…
Ronald Reagan (right) and George H. W. Bush, 1982
Ronald Reagan 1985 presidential portrait