US History › Section M · Depression and New Deal › Topic M.6
The Second New Deal
From 1935, squeezed by critics on the left and right and by a hostile Supreme Court, Roosevelt pushed through laws on jobs, pensions and union rights that built America's modern social safety net. Who those laws included and left out, and whether they ended the Depression, remain central questions for historians.
In this topic
- Pressure from the right and the Court
- Challengers from the left
- Jobs: the WPA and its offshoots
- The Social Security Act
- Unions, taxes and banks
- Worked example: who did Social Security cover?
- Landslide and the Court fight
- Recession and the last reforms
- Included and excluded
- Worked example: did the New Deal end the Depression?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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