The New Deal was a program enacted by American President Franklin D. Roosevelt that helped the U.S. economy recover from the Great Depression through the following:
<u>The creation of government agencies that put people back to work</u> and decreased the high unemployment rates, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (1933) that gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects, the Works Progress Administration (1935) that employed mostly unskilled men to carry out public works projects, and the Tennessee Valley Authority (1933) that provided jobs and electricity to the rural Tennessee River Valley
<u>The establishment of reform programs involving legislation that focused on labor, labor unions, and disadvantaged citizens</u> like the elderly, the poor and the disabled. As well as legislation that <u>regulated banking practices and provided deposit insurance</u> to protect bank depositors and restore American confidence in the banking system.
Power was concentrated in a single assembly, rather than being divided, as in the state governments, into separate houses and branches. Further, members of the Confederation Congress were selected by state governments, not by the people.
