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new deal  

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  • The New Deal (1933–39) was a set of economic and social measures enacted by Congress and implemented by the federal government early in the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It constituted a response to the Great Depression of the 1930s and a departure from the concept of limited government. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West; New Deal]

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