Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson
The American Promise:
A History of the United States
Fourth Edition
CHAPTER 24
The New Deal Experiment
1932–1939
Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
A Patrician in Government
• The Making of a Politician
• The Election of 1932
Launching the New Deal
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The New Dealers
Banking and Finance Reform
Relief and Conservation Programs
Agricultural Initiatives
Industrial Recovery
Challenges to the New Deal
• Resistance to Business Reform
• Casualties in the Countryside
• Politics on the Fringes
Toward a Welfare State
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Relief for the Unemployed
Empowering Labor
Social Security and Tax Reform
Neglected Americans and the New Deal
The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock
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The Election of 1936
Court Packing
Reaction and Recession
The Last of the New Deal Reforms
Chapter 24
The New Deal Experiment: 1932–1939
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Map 24.1 The Election of 1932 (p. 868)
Map 24.2 Electoral Shift, 1928–1932 (p. 868)
Map 24.3 The Tennessee Valley Authority (p. 875)
Figure 24.1 Bank Failures and Farm Foreclosures, 1932–1942 (p. 873)
Global Comparison: National Populations and Economies, circa 1938
(p. 897)
Attack on the Bonus Marchers (p. 864)
Roosevelt’s Common Touch (p. 866)
Okie Family (p. 882)
Social Security Card (p. 889)
“All Races Serve the Crops in California” (p. 894)