INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Works Progress Administration
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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Social Security Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest days of the Great Depression.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Of all of President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is the most famous, because it affected so many people’s lives. Roosevelt’s work-relief program employed more than 8.5 million people.
Detailed explanation-4: -Its construction projects produced more than 650, 000 miles of roads, 125, 000 public buildings, 75, 000 bridges, and 8, 000 parks. Also under its aegis were the Federal Art Project, Federal Writers’ Project, and Federal Theatre Project. The CCC provided national conservation work primarily for young unmarried men.