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New Deal: Garnet Event
The New Deal was the set of federal programs, laws and agencies that President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched from 1933 to fight the Great Depression. It aimed to put people to work, steady the banks and give families a safety net, and it created the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration and Social Security.
- Cost
- 3 crystals
- Type
- Event · Triumph
- Color
- Garnet (Rebels, Pirates & War)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
Triumph
Add 1 crystal to your pool. Draw a card.
Roosevelt's alphabet soup governance that turned economic disaster into massive public works and endless political arguments.
The real history
The Great Depression began with the stock market crash of October 1929. By 1933, the FDR Presidential Library reports, about one worker in four had no job, the banking system had collapsed and prices had fallen to roughly a third of their 1929 level.
Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, and in his first hundred days Congress passed a wave of laws that created new federal agencies, nicknamed the alphabet agencies. One of the first was the Civilian Conservation Corps, signed into law on March 31, 1933. It hired mostly single men aged 18 to 25 from families on relief to plant trees, fight erosion and build in forests and parks. Over nine years it employed more than 2.5 million men.
A second wave followed in 1935. The Works Progress Administration was created by executive order on May 6, 1935, to give unemployed people paid work on public projects such as highways, airports, dams and public buildings. It also ran arts programs for painters, musicians, actors and writers. On August 14, 1935, Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, which set up old-age benefits for workers, unemployment insurance and aid for needy mothers, children and people with disabilities.
Historians still debate how much the New Deal ended the Depression. The FDR Library notes that full recovery did not arrive until the 1940s, when war-related demand and government spending brought full employment by 1941. Even so, the New Deal changed what Americans expected from Washington, and Social Security is still part of American life.
Sources
- Great Depression Facts, FDR Presidential Library and Museum
- Into the Woods: The First Year of the Civilian Conservation Corps, National Archives, Prologue Magazine
- Records of the Work Projects Administration, National Archives
- 1935 Social Security Act, National Park Service
How the card plays
New Deal costs 3 crystals and is a Garnet Event. It has Triumph, a game term meaning that if it is revealed from your Life cards you may play it for free. When it resolves, you add 1 crystal to your pool and draw a card.
That makes it a cheap way to refill your hand while paying back part of its own cost. Play it early so the crystal helps you reach your expensive turns sooner, and enjoy it as a free bonus if it ever flips from your Life. It does nothing to the board, so it is best when you are not under pressure. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Deal Maker also gives you extra crystals, which makes a smooth path toward the big plays. Siege of Yorktown costs 7 and clears two small enemies, and The American Dream costs 9 and brings two characters back from your trash.
- Playable in decks led by Edward Teach "Blackbeard", and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Garnet.
- In the Blackbeard starter deck (1 copy). Deck code:
LC2-Aj4BPwFAAUEBQgFDAUQCRQFGAkcBSAFJAkoBSwFMAU0BTgFPAlACUQFSAVMCVAFVAVYBVwFYAVkBWgFbAVwBXQJeAW9C - A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.
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