Roosevelt remained vague on the campaign trail, promising only that under his presidency government would act decisively to end the Depression.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT- 1932

New Deal-1(1933-35) The Agricultural Adjustment

Act (AAA), passed in 1933 government sought to

stimulate increased farm prices by paying farmers to produce less.

It did little for smaller farmers and led to the eviction and homelessness of tenants and sharecroppers whose landlords hardly needed their services under a system that paid them to grow less

NEW DEAL

Aimed at restoring the economy from the bottom up

The Works Progress Administration was a huge federal jobs program that sought to hire unemployed breadwinners for the purpose strengthening their family's well-being as well as boosting consumer demand.

National Labour Relations Act of

1935

New Deal (1935-40s)

Outbreak of World War II causesUS factories flooded with orders

form armaments and munitionsUnemployment decreases and

production increaseDepression ends completely by

the time the US enters the war in 1941

End to Depression