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would be a little bit more behind the environmental curve per say, yet probably would be better off in some respects. In the end, however, these men did their work over a ginormous landmass, the size of current day California. It cannot be put better than to say, “So, when Americans go out today and they go to a park or they go visit a farm or work a farm or they even walk through a national forest, they are walking on a landscape that was completely created by the Civilian Conservation Corps in…

reveal his plan of action to address the unemployment problem. Moreover, FDR won his election because of his promise to address “the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid” by creating more opportunities to work through the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Workers Progress Administration (Doc. A). The purpose of the document was to introduce two legislations that provide the promise FDR addressed in his campaign that many unemployed people adhered to during the depression. The…

An artist is struggling to make a living; she has two children who cannot predict when their next meal is. The artist heard that the WPA (the Works Progress Administration) was funding for the arts as part of a relief program. She was ecstatic to hear she could finally obtain a job to provide for her family. This artist was put in the position of poverty because after WWI, the economy was booming and the American society went through a prosperous period known as the Roaring 20s. In 1929, there…

One of the worst moments in American history was the stock market crash of 1929. The crash revealed the flaws in the U.S. economic system which led to the economic recession. Before the crash, the U.S. had been in a decade of prosperity known as the Roaring Twenties, but on October 1929, the stock market’s collapse caused the U.S. to go into a long period of depression, also known as the Great Depression. This depression lasted from 1929 until about 1939. In 1933, at the depth of the depression,…

Programs like the National Youth Administration (NYA) gave young people a chance to work for pay to help their families (Doc. 1) . These jobs often helped students afford to continue going to school. Without programs like the NYA, many parents would not have been able to support their families, and their children would not be able to get the education they need. The New Deal also brought about programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that helped provide poor children with lunch…

The great Depression Imagine, you have a wonderful life with no problems other than having to get out of your squishy bed in your apartment in the morning, and driving your brand new car to work. Then, one day, your life takes a faster turn than a tornado. Your having to work all of the time with aches and pains, and you never have any free time. You can barely pay your bills, for you lost all of your money as if someone took all of the money you used to have and set it ablaze. This was the…

Congress to bring relief to young men between 18 and 25 years of age, jobless young men were enrolled in work camps across the country. These young men were able to earn a living through participating in a variety of conservation projects that also proved to be beneficial to the environment as well in that it decreased the likelihood of another Dust Bowl. Work relief also came in the form of the Civil Works Administration. The CWA was created because the NIRA failed to make a large dent in…

When the Great Depression hit millions of people began to starve because they could not afford the raised food prices. “One million undernourished children have benefited from the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) school lunch programs” (Ellen S. Woodward). The government created the WPA that provided millions of students in school with a well balanced meal. In just under two years 80,000,000 hot, nutritious meals were served at a…

primary role is in the household. The purpose of The Works Progress Administration was to employ millions of individuals for projects specifically in the construction sector. However, this poster implies that a woman had no place in the work sphere outside of the household. Furthermore, the fact that it states that the job has “good pay, good meals, good surroundings and working conditions” indirectly hints at the terrible working conditions in most work environments during this time, as a…

buying and selling of shares of stock on Wall Street to prevent future speculation. The Federal Housing Administration insured bank loans that were distributed to construct new houses and repair old homes. In 1935, Roosevelt helped create the Works Progress Administration to help the unemployed Americans find jobs. In its first year of existence, the WPA helped 3.4 million men and women find jobs in factories and other professions throughout the country. Like the PWA, WPA workers built bridges,…