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The New Deal was a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform...

Timeline of Events

1933

3.9.1933

Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.

4.10.1933

New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps is created.

5.18.1933

New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.

5.27.1933

New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.

1934

6.6.1934

New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

1935

5.6.1935

New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.

1937

7.22.1937

New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.