THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELTS NEW DEAL
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Works Progress Administration
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Public Works Adminstration
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National Recovery Adminstration
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -Perhaps best known for its public works projects, the WPA also sponsored projects in the arts-the agency employed tens of thousands of actors, musicians, writers and other artists.
Detailed explanation-2: -The WPA employed skilled and unskilled workers in a great variety of work projects-many of which were public works projects such as creating parks, and building roads, bridges, schools, and other public structures.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects.
Detailed explanation-4: -The WPA, the Public Works Administration (PWA) and other federal assistance programs put unemployed Americans to work in return for temporary financial assistance. Out of the 10 million jobless men in the United States in 1935, 3 million were helped by WPA jobs alone.