Upon accepting the 1932 Democratic nomination for president, Franklin.D.Roosevelt promised “a new deal for the American people”, encompassed the proposals offered by a wide spectrum of groups. From March 9 to June 16, Congress passed a series of significant laws to provide relief for victims of the depression, to recover economy, to reform financial, business, agriculture, and industry. Among them was the public works program to prime the pump and cut unemployment, the PWA ( Public Works Administration ), organized and provided funds for the building of public infrastructure.
Not only did the projects offer job opportunities to the unemployed, also but they also improved the environment through reforestation and flood control, which reclaimed millions of hectares of soil form erosion and devastation. As is noted by one authority, Roosevelt’s “ New Deal” was “literally stamped on the American landscape”.
The depression did not ended through the New Deal. Nonetheless, the New Deal laid the substance foundation for World War Two and preserved the democratic system of America.
The New Deal represented a significant shift in politics and domestic