INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Question
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Presidential powers were expanded.
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Congress exerted greater leadership
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The Supreme Court expanded civil liberties.
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Power shifted from the federal government to the states.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The New Deal was a set of domestic policies enacted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt that dramatically expanded the federal government’s role in the economy in response to the Great Depression.
Detailed explanation-2: -Based on the assumption that the power of the federal government was needed to get the country out of the depression, the first days of Roosevelt’s administration saw the passage of banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs.
Detailed explanation-3: -The biography for President Roosevelt and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association. Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves.
Detailed explanation-4: -He signed laws establishing five national parks, and broadened executive power by signing the Antiquities Act in 1906. This law gave the president the power to proclaim historic landmarks, structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest as national monuments.