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ELI5: FDR's "New Deal"
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TL;DR verison: The "New Deal" was the government trying to help get the country's economy out of a major depression.

When FDR took office, the economy had crashed years ago, and still had not recovered. 

The previous president had a "hands off" economic policy that said government should stay out of the economy as much as possible. If people didn't save for their retirement, that was too bad. If people wanted their roads clean and clear, they should take care of it themselves. If too many farmers planted corn, and the result was that none of them could make much money selling corn, and the corn rotted, then the farmers needed to learn to pick different crops. That was the "old deal". 

That didn't work to end the Depression, so FDR wanted to try something different, by having the U.S. Federal government spend money to try and stimulate the economy. It included programs like Social Security. It involved hiring a lot of people to do public works programs, like building dams, or improving roadways, or creating facilities for public parks. There were farm subsidies, and bank holidays, and a lot of other things that were tried to boost the economy. Some of them worked really well, some worked OK but helped a lot of people, and some didn't work at all. Some things they tried wound up in court and were rules unconstitutional.