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             Dual Federalism lasted up until the Great Depression after WWI. When the stock market crashed and so many people lost everything they had, at least twelve to fifteen million people were out of jobs and looking for their respective states to help them. The country also had many soldiers coming home from war to walk into a country with nothing to give. The people and the states started looking for answers in the national government and this was the start of the national government having more than the powers written in the constitution. The general welfare of the citizens was in the hands of the national government. The states had no money and no answers on what people should do the national government stepped up and went into action with Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. #.
             This New Deal made up many great programs to bring American out of the depression. President Roosevelt brought in the members of congress for a meeting that would last one hundred days. During this time they together worked on programs that would help the country arise from the Great Depression. They passed several laws that were aimed at bringing the economy out of the gutter. These programs provided relief for victims of the depression, and reforming financial, business, agricultural, and industrial practices. Later in another Congressional Session the national government passed three new acts to go with the earlier ones; the Works Progress Administration, The National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act.# .
             # Cox, George H. & Rosenfeld, Raymond A. State and Local Government: Public Life in America.
             Wadsworth and Thomson learning. 2001.
             # Http://www.aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com/wb/article?id=ar388300.
             # Http://www.aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com/wb/article?id=ar388300. .
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             This was the beginning of a new age of federalism that is still running are country today. This new cooperative federalism united national, state, and local governments into working cooperatively on issues concerning the nation's domestic issues.


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