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Using the democratic measuring stick of popular votes, there can be no doubt that Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democrats, and the New Deal dominated the 1930s. Roosevelt's take-charge, action-oriented, pragmatic brand of politics was welcomed by most Americans who had watched as the number of shanty towns — called "Hoovervilles" by many — grew larger. Alongside poverty, strikes by industrial workers increased and were sometimes violent and bloody. Voices from the political Left and Right captured people's attention in ways that they had not done in pre-Depression years. In response Roosevelt's political program promised a reshuffling of the cards of American government, economy, and society in a "New Deal" for the American people. The New Deal set out to bring relief, recovery, and reform, and in the process the federal government was vastly expanded. Roosevelt accomplished his sweeping legislative reforms (and his election to four terms...
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