INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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farmers
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homeowners
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unemployed workers
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created emergency relief agencies, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), to address the severe economic problems of the early 1930s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Such agencies as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) were established to dispense emergency and short-term governmental aid and to provide temporary jobs, employment on construction projects, and youth work in the national forests.
Detailed explanation-3: -The WPA was designed to provide relief for the unemployed by providing jobs and income for millions of Americans.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
Detailed explanation-5: -The program’s primary goal was to bring poor young men out of America’s urban centers to rehabilitate their health and morale while contributing to their families’ economic well being.