History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1558 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Government Out of Sight
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The idea
Before the First World War the American national state had been, in the Yawp's phrase, a government out of sight; after the New Deal Americans came to see Washington as a potential ally.
In practice
Unemployment insurance, old-age insurance and insured bank deposits, the lasting legacies Digital History lists.
Where people slip
Digital History calls that shift in government philosophy the New Deal's greatest legacy.
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