This page contains a list of the Government programs created during The Great Depression.

In the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the American people a “New Deal.” Over the decade 1933-43, a constellation of federally sponsored programs put millions of jobless Americans back to work and helped to revive a moribund economy. The result was a rich landscape of public works across the nation, often of outstanding beauty, utility and craftsmanship.

The National Agricultural Law Center contains a list of Farm Bill Legislations. Scroll down to access the 1933 Farm Bill, created in response to The Great Depression.

This page contains the Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933.

The economic collapse of 1929 known as the Great Depression caused widespread hardship throughout the United States. When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in January 1933, 15 million Americans were unemployed.

Search "new deal" for a collection of American Memory including written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the impact of The Great Depression and the New Deal.

Search "new deal" on The Social Welfare History Project site to access information about the social welfare of America during The Great Depression.

Although there were many inequities in the New Deal housing, agricultural and economic programs, blacks had opportunities to obtain employment, some in areas previously closed to them.

This collection of life histories consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program that was part of the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1940.