New Deal

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the presidential administration?Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. What is the economic philosophy shift?Moved from laissez-faire principles to active government intervention and regulation
3. What was the New Deal and why did it help America?The New Deal was a set of programs created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help people during the Great Depression. It gave jobs, money, and new rules to keep the economy from falling again.
4. How did the New Deal create jobs for people?Programs like the Works Progress Administration built roads, bridges, and schools, while the Civilian Conservation Corps planted trees and protected forests. These projects gave millions of people work.

Great Depression: A severe global economic crisis from 1929 to 1939, characterized by mass unemployment and financial collapse.
New Deal: A comprehensive set of U.S. federal programs, financial reforms, and regulations enacted between 1933 and 1939.
Social Security Act: Landmark 1935 legislation establishing a system of old-age benefits, unemployment compensation, and aid to dependent children.
Laissez-faire Economics: An economic system where transactions are free from government intervention such as regulation, privileges, tariffs, and subsidies.