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Subject(s)

• Depressions—1929—United States—Sources [Browse]
• New Deal, 1933-1939—Sources [Browse]
• United States—History—1933-1945—Sources [Browse]
• United States—History—1919-1933—Sources [Browse]

Related name

• Gale (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• Documents decoded [More in this series]
• Gale eBooks

Summary note

The political ideas that resulted from confronting the crisis of the Great Depression and the New Deal of the early 20th century reshaped America. This documentary history collects a range of primary sources to illuminate this critical period in U.S. history.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Rugged individualism
• Veto of the bonus bill
• Muscle shoals veto message
• Protest at the bank of the United States
• The government takes an active role in banks
• "What ten million women want"
• "Bold, persistent experimentation"
• War against the depression
• The end of prohibition : "a proper and needed revenue"
• The bonus army
• Creation of the federal emergency relief administration
• Help for home owners and buyers
• The philosophy of government
• "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
• Declaration of a banking holiday
• The banking crisis
• Launching the civilian conservation corps
• Abandoning the gold standard
• Helping the American farmer
• Muscle shoals revisited
• Regulating industry
• Creating the federal deposit insurance corporation
• "With the civilian conservation corps"
• "The teacher faces the depression"
• "The necessity of profound change"
• Regulating the stock market
• The defeat of the National Recovery Administration
• Protecting workers by supporting unions
• "The new deal and the negro : a look at the facts"
• Legacy of the new deal
• Rejecting the agricultural adjustment act
• Attack on the new deal
• Migrant mother
• WPA workers in Alabama
• "America is in peril"
• "Roosevelt and ruin"
• "On the road to restored prosperity"
• Judicial branch reorganization plan
• Criticism of Roosevelt's Supreme Court reform plan
• Constitutional validity of minimum wage laws
• In support of improved housing
• Creating the forty-hour work week and regulating child labor
• Moving toward racial equality
• Economic bill of rights.

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ISBN

9781610695350 (electronic book)

OCLC

891161830

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