President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal

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The New Deal was a plan put into place by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help strenghthen the United States Economy through the Great Depression. There were several different phases and programs to help strenghthen the economy.

One program from the New Deal was the AAA, the Agricultural Adjustment Act. This is where the government would pay farmers to produce less food. They would then get more money off the food they did produce and money from the government. This really only helped landowners, not share croppers.

The New Deal also created a plan reffered to as the NRA, the National Industrial Recovery Administration. This created jobs and made rights for people in the workplace such as minimum wage, a maximum workweek, and child

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