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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, portrayed here as a country doctor, administers “remedies” to a sick Uncle Sam in the form of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs which were meant to help combat the ravages wrought by the Great Depression.
Roosevelt's features, especially his wide mouth and constant movement while speaking, were a cartoonist's delight. This early-20th-century cartoon by Gustav Brandt for a German magazine captures the essence of Teddy Roosevelt, champion of the "square deal" for the American people.
This document provides summaries of several political cartoons from the era of the New Deal between 1933 and 1939. The cartoons portrayed public support for FDR and new programs like the CCC and WPA to address the Depression, as well as concerns that some groups faced continued discrimination.
President Roosevelt in his effort to repair the ailing economy? • What are some of the forms by which the cartoons depict FDR’s strengths? • Identify some opposing forces, as illustrated, standing in the way of FDR’s policies. • For each component of the New Deal—relief, recovery, reform—identify a cartoon
Cartoon: "It IS a New Deal". Photograph of a "Bank Run," Detroit, MI, 1933. Money & Banking. Roosevelt's first priority was to deal with the crisis of bank failures. Two days after his inauguration, the president declared a nation-wide banking holiday, and then called a special session of congress.
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.
In July of 1932, in the midst of the greatest economic crisis in U.S. history, Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, promising “a new deal for the American people.”
