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-chat
In 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-rights
Chapters:
Introduction: The New Deal 00:00
The New Deal 0:53
FDR’s Election 1:20
The 3 R’s of the New Deal 2:24
The First New Deal 3:30
The National Industrial Recovery Act 4:20
The Tennessee Valley Authority 5:15
The Agricultural Adjustment Act 5:42
Supreme Court Interventions 6:17
FDR’s Court Packing Controversy 6:48
The Second New Deal 7:43
The Wagner Act & the National Labor Relations Board 7:56
Mystery Document 8:11
CIO Unions 8:49
The Social Security Act 9:49
The Works Progress Administration 10:33
Political Party Alignments in the New Deal Era 11:18
Did the New Deal end the Great Depression? 12:27
Legacy of the New Deal 13:05
Credits 14:24
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