The New Deal was FDR's agenda for ending the Great Depression of the 1930's and he began the process a day after being inaugurated by calling Congress into special session. First the Emergency Banking Relief Act and the Glass-Steagall Act were passed to try to stem the tide of failing banks throughout the United States.
FDR continued on with his plan by passing legislation that started the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration, the Tennessee Vally Authority, etc. These policies were all aimed at providing work in areas where unemployment was worst.
LBJ's Great Society was also a big set of legislation that may have had some of the same general Democratic principles in mind, but focused on the problems in different
FDR continued on with his plan by passing legislation that started the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration, the Tennessee Vally Authority, etc. These policies were all aimed at providing work in areas where unemployment was worst.
LBJ's Great Society was also a big set of legislation that may have had some of the same general Democratic principles in mind, but focused on the problems in different