

There's no guaranteed way of passing the bill, which by default has a 1 in 3 chance to pass. If the bill fails, there will be no recovery, but an equivalent line of focuses will still allow players to choose whether to build support in Northern or Southern States but without the bonuses. The bill passing will begin the economic recovery, most notably allowing the US to build factories again, and leads to focuses to form new government agencies with their headquarters in different states (each focus offers a Northern and Southern choice, and increases that state's chance of staying with the Federal Government come the Civil War) these agencies will provide bonuses. This is done through the Garner-Wagner Bill focus, which can either pass or fail.

The main pre-war focus path is to deal with the aftermath of Black Friday. If no political power is spent keeping the coalition together, it will fall apart again. Doing so will cost 200 political power and create the coalition ticket, and lead to a series of events which cost political power to keep the coalition intact. The option will arise shortly into 1936 for Hoover to suggest the democratic parties (the Democrats, Republicans and Farmer-Labor parties) form a unity ticket, with Floyd Olson as candidate, and run as a single party. All of them are hoping to put their man in the White House in the upcoming 1936 election The pre-Civil War US has three major factions: the various democratic groups, the syndicalists in the Socialist Party under Jack Reed and the non-socialist authoritarians in the America First Party under Huey Long. The US has limited options before the war in terms of focuses, as most of their tree is locked until during or after the war. The American economy is struggling, and will collapse altogether (>0 free civilian factories) once Black Monday hits. Prior to the start of the Civil War (which is unavoidable in one form or another), Herbert Hoover (Republican) is President of the US.
