The Impact Of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal

The Great Depression was a global economic crisis that many say was triggered by the political decisions post World War I. It was described as “ The nation’s worst economic crisis, extending through the 1930s, producing unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and industrial and agricultural collapse.”(Faragher, p. 627) The most meaningful and long lasting reform that came from the crisis of the Great Depression was ultimately Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. This deal permanently enlarged the role of the federal government in American society and influenced for half a century, the disappearance of the free market.
Although many saw a bright future ahead, the New Deal marked the outer limit of possible socio-political change. The structural