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The New Deal: Crash Course US History #34
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- CrashCourse
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- Sep 22, 2026
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- 1151
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Summary
In which John Green teaches you about the New Deal, which was president Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to pull the United States out of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Did it work? Maybe. John will teach you about some of the most effective and some of the best-known programs of the New Deal. They weren't always the same thing. John will tell you who supported the New Deal, and who opposed it. He'll also get into how the New Deal changed the relationship between the government and citizens, and will even reveal just how the Depression ended. (hint: it was war spending)Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. President Roosevelt developed his New Deal policies to ease the economic burdens of the Great Depression, a grim reality he began to tackle with his first fireside chat: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/president-roosevelt-s-first-fireside-chatIn his Economic Bill of Rights, FDR tried to get the country to trust its banks again: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-economic-bill-of-rightsChapters:Introduction: The New Deal 00:00The New Deal 0:53FDR's Election 1:20The 3 R's of the New Deal 2:24The First New Deal 3:30The National Industrial Recovery Act 4:20The Tennessee Valley Authority 5:15The Agricultural Adjustment Act 5:42Supreme Court Interventions 6:17FDR's Court Packing Controversy 6:48The Second New Deal 7:43The Wagner Act & the National Labor Relations Board 7:56Mystery Document 8:11CIO Unions 8:49The Social Security Act 9:49The Works Progress Administration 10:33Political Party Alignments in the New Deal Era 11:18Did the New Deal end the Great Depression? 12:27Legacy of the New Deal 13:05Credits 14:24Crash Course is on Patreon! You can suppo…