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Reform Movements of the 20th Century chart

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Presidential Reform Policies

 

Square Deal/New Freedom

New Deal

Fair Deal

New Frontier

Great  Society

Dates

1901-1916

1933-1939

1945-1953

1961-1963

1963-1969

Leaders

T. Roosevelt;

W. Wilson

F. Roosevelt

H. Truman

J. Kennedy

L. Johnson

Goals

Control corporations, trusts

 

Citizen protection

 

Clean up government

 

Conserve environment

Relief for unemployed

 

Recovery from the Depression

 

Reform of financial institutions, economic system

Continue/expand New Deal with special attention to economic security

Continue/expand New Deal with some attention to civil rights, education

Complete New Deal with special attention to poverty, cities, civil rights, healthcare, education

Actions

Hepburn Act

 

Pure Food and Drug Act

 

Clayton Act

 

Northern Securities Case

 

Federal Reserve Act

 

Federal Trade Commission

 

Newlands Act

 

Keating-Owen Act

 

Progressive Amendments

(16th, 17th)

National Industrial Recovery Act

 

Agricultural Adjustment Act

 

Civilian Conservation Corp

 

Public Works Administration

 

Social Security Act

 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

 

Tennessee Valley Authority

 

Securities and Exchange Commission

 

Wagner Act

Desegregated military

 

Employment Act 1946

 

Raised minimum wage

 

Expanded Social Security

 

Proposed civil rights program

Proposed:

 

   Medicare

 

   Civil Rights Act

 

   Aid to education

 

   Public housing

 

   Mass transit

 

 

Head Start program

 

60 education acts

 

Medicare/Medicaid Act

 

Civil Rights Act

 

Voting Rights Act

 

Economic Opportunity Act

 

Immigration Act

 

Highway Safety Act

 

Model Cities Act

 

Housing Act

 

 

 

 

 

 

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