HH v FDR: managing the economy. Opposition to tne New Deal. NIRA Struck Down. Radical alternatives (1) Radical Alternatives to a Collapsing System In retrospect, we know that during the Great Depression the American people never rose up en masse to demand the overhaul—much less overthrow—of their long-established system of democratic capitalism, even though that system largely failed to relieve the miseries of the Depression for more than a decade.
In retrospect, we know that most meaningful long-lasting reform that emerged from the crisis of the Great Depression came from Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, which permanently enlarged the role of the federal government in American society and tempered, for half a century, the volatility of the free market. At the time, however, it was not at all clear that the New Deal marked the outer limit of possible socio-political change. The structural breakdown of the American system led many Americans to embrace much more radical alternatives to the status quo. Radical alternatives (2) - Coughlin. VID: The New Deal in Ten Minutes. Where Historians Disagree. Complete List - The Legacy of F.D.R. Dorothea Lange Photos. FDR Cartoons Main Page. New Deal Programs. Minimum Wage (Fair Labor Standard Act) WPA Created.