Which phrase describes the three goals of the New Deal: relief, recovery, and reform?

• A. The New Deal
• B. Relief, Recovery, and Reform
• C. Three R's (relief, recovery, reform)
• D. Alphabet Agencies

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is how people talked about the New Deal as a set of goals. The best descriptor is the Three R’s, with relief, recovery, and reform. This shorthand name is commonly used to label the whole strategy in one concise phrase, showing that the New Deal aimed to provide immediate help (relief), revive the economy (recovery), and change institutions or rules to prevent future depressions (reform).

Relief, Recovery, and Reform describes the actual goals, but the Three R’s captures the idea of a single, organized approach people use to discuss the program as a whole. The other options either name the program in general terms, list the goals without a single label, or point to the agencies created, which are parts of the plan but not the way historians typically label the trio of aims.