{"id":1569,"date":"2015-08-20T05:46:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T05:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanyawphist118x15x1\/?post_type=chapter&p=1569"},"modified":"2015-08-20T05:46:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T05:46:50","slug":"the-legacy-of-the-new-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-atdcoursereview-ushistory2-1\/chapter\/the-legacy-of-the-new-deal-2\/","title":{"raw":"The Legacy of the New Deal","rendered":"The Legacy of the New Deal"},"content":{"raw":"By the end of the 1930s, Roosevelt and his Democratic congresses had presided over a transformation of the American government and a realignment in American party politics. Before World War I, the American national state, though powerful, had been a \u201cgovernment out of sight.\u201d After the New Deal, Americans came to see the federal government as a potential ally in their daily struggles, whether finding work, securing a decent wage, getting a fair price for agricultural products, or organizing a union. Voter turnout in presidential elections jumped in 1932 and again in 1936, with most of these newly-mobilized voters forming a durable piece of the Democratic Party that would remain loyal well into the 1960s. Even as affluence returned with the American intervention in World War II, memories of the Depression continued to shape the outlook of two generations of Americans. Survivors of the Great Depression, one man would recall in the late 1960s, \u201care still riding with the ghost\u2014the ghost of those days when things came hard.\u201d\r\n\r\nHistorians debate when the New Deal \u201cended.\u201d Some identify the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 as the last major New Deal measure. Others see wartime measures such as price and rent control and the G.I. Bill (which afforded New Deal-style social benefits to veterans) as species of New Deal legislation. Still others conceive of a \u201cNew Deal order,\u201d a constellation of \u201cideas, public policies, and political alliances,\u201d which, though changing, guided American politics from Roosevelt\u2019s Hundred Days forward to Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Great Society\u2014and perhaps even beyond. Indeed, the New Deal\u2019s legacy still remains, and its battle lines still shape American politics.\r\n\r\nThis chapter was edited by Matthew Downs, with content contributed by Dana Cochran, Matthew Downs, Benjamin Helwege, Elisa Minoff, Caitlin Verboon, and Mason Williams.<\/em>","rendered":"

By the end of the 1930s, Roosevelt and his Democratic congresses had presided over a transformation of the American government and a realignment in American party politics. Before World War I, the American national state, though powerful, had been a \u201cgovernment out of sight.\u201d After the New Deal, Americans came to see the federal government as a potential ally in their daily struggles, whether finding work, securing a decent wage, getting a fair price for agricultural products, or organizing a union. Voter turnout in presidential elections jumped in 1932 and again in 1936, with most of these newly-mobilized voters forming a durable piece of the Democratic Party that would remain loyal well into the 1960s. Even as affluence returned with the American intervention in World War II, memories of the Depression continued to shape the outlook of two generations of Americans. Survivors of the Great Depression, one man would recall in the late 1960s, \u201care still riding with the ghost\u2014the ghost of those days when things came hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Historians debate when the New Deal \u201cended.\u201d Some identify the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 as the last major New Deal measure. Others see wartime measures such as price and rent control and the G.I. Bill (which afforded New Deal-style social benefits to veterans) as species of New Deal legislation. Still others conceive of a \u201cNew Deal order,\u201d a constellation of \u201cideas, public policies, and political alliances,\u201d which, though changing, guided American politics from Roosevelt\u2019s Hundred Days forward to Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Great Society\u2014and perhaps even beyond. Indeed, the New Deal\u2019s legacy still remains, and its battle lines still shape American politics.<\/p>\n

This chapter was edited by Matthew Downs, with content contributed by Dana Cochran, Matthew Downs, Benjamin Helwege, Elisa Minoff, Caitlin Verboon, and Mason Williams.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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