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Facts

Date 1933 - 1939
Location United States
Context Great Depression

Did You Know?

  • The Works Progress Administration not only built public works but also funded artists, theatre, writers, and musicians.
  • The prevalent use of acronyms to refer to New Deal programs led to comparisons between the New Deal and alphabet soup.
  • FDR used his fireside chats to urge Americans to put money back into banks, which helped them to recover.

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A long line of young men in coats and hats wait outside canvas tents as one man is fitted for shoes at Camp Dix, New Jersey, in 1935.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt sits at a desk signing the Farm Relief Bill in 1933, surrounded by a group of men in suits including Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace at far right.
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Men using pickaxes gather tree trunks and brush for removal from a hillside.
An aerial view of a section of a city. Many new four-story white apartment buildings are in the center, surrounded by houses and other buildings.
John Howard Lawson: Processional
A man sits in a chair while another man measures his feet. Other men are in a line waiting behind him. Tents are set up behind the men.
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Harold L. Ickes
United States government official
Franklin D. Roosevelt smiling and leaning on a surface, holding a cigarette in a holder, wearing a suit and glasses, photographed in 1937.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
president of United States
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes
American jurist and statesman
Rayburn, Sam
Sam Rayburn
American politician
Harry L. Hopkins
Harry L. Hopkins
American public administrator and political adviser
Harlan Fiske Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone
chief justice of United States
Robert F. Wagner.
Robert F. Wagner
United States senator
Henry A. Wallace, 33rd vice president of the United States, seated at a desk in a suit, holding a pen over papers, looking toward the camera.
Henry A. Wallace
vice president of United States
Robert H. Jackson
Robert H. Jackson
United States jurist
Borah
William E. Borah
American politician
John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner
vice president of United States
James F. Byrnes
James F. Byrnes
American jurist
Alben Barkley
Alben W. Barkley
vice president of United States
Robinson, Joseph T.
Joseph T. Robinson
American lawyer and politician
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
United States statesman
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