Roosevelt promised to act to end the Great Depression. He urged programs to deal with what he referred to as the "forgotten man- during the depression. ... In fact, between 1929 and 1939 cotton acreage in America was reduced almost in half. ... Between 1933 and 1936, the alphabet agencies of the New Deal spent $34,780,966 in Charleston and the county and pumped 6.6 million additional federal dollars into the Navy Yard between 1933 and 1939, thereby saving the county's economy from collapse. ...

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• Grade Level: High School