Works Progress Administration

Conservation Corps deal, Works Progress Administration, and the Social Security Act. The Civilian Conservation Corps act was one of the most popular of all the new deals. This was because it provided unskilled manual labor jobs to 3 million men who might have gotten involved with crime activity. In outdoor government camps the CCC worked in conservation and development of land resources owned by federal, state, and local governments. They planted 3 billion trees to replace the forests that had been devastated by the industrialization. They fought fires, worked in flood control, drained swamplands, and built public access and service roads. With the CCC 800 parks were created, and most state parks were updated. The CCC benefited the American economy by providing jobs to those in need and caring for the land they live on.…

One important thing it did was create jobs with the Tennessee Valley Authority and help farmer by raising the crop prices. The New Deal also had social programs; such as, Social Security. Also the New Deal focused heavily on business reform programs; such as, The National Industrial Recovery Act, The National Recovery Administration, and The Fair Labor Standards Act. Also the New Deal was meant to fix the banking system through the Emergency Banking Act, The Glass-Steagall Act, and the…

It put unemployed Americans back to work and gave them the ability to receive loans that were sustainable to both upper and lower class citizens. More buildings, roads, bridges, and trails were built because of the programs in the New Deal. Franklin Roosevelt established this program to make a difference. Prices became cheaper, loans were able to be paid back, unemployed workers became employed. People were put back into factories because of World War II when they needed more supplies for…

(Quote) “ It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something!” (Background) This is a quote by Franklin D Roosevelt, who, with his administration helped the country out of the great depression. (Explanation) This quote means when you fail, you have to accept it and find a better solution. (Relationship) FDR found a solution to help the country out of the Great Depression. For example, he revived enterprise and found use of…

FDR’s administration had to immediately solve the nationwide crisis of unemployment and instability in order to improve the US economy. In fact, the newly elected president, FDR, requested Congress to help aid his relief program, in which his first proposal of relief was to enroll workers in the Federal gov’t as part of his direct attack on unemployment (Doc F). FDR was handed a plethora of problems from Hoover, one of which was unemployment, that needed to be solved in order for balance in…

WPA: Work Pays America! Founded in 1935, the “Works Progress Administration” (WPA), which is now known as the “Works Projects Administration”, was an important New Deal reform program. It was considered as a key to resolve economic crises and the rise of unemployment; these factors led to this reform movement. The WPA was successful when it came to producing projects that shaped the country such as construction and art projects; however, the WPA was not that effective to decrease the rate of…

These two groups continued being discussed as lesser individuals and yet continued to stand up for them, contested for their own rights and supported their families. Following the Depression, African-Americans were able to gain relief, recovery and reform from federal programs. Some gained support through youth and educational programs protecting them as members of labor unions and several became union officers. Women faced an obligation to seek paid work outside of the home and for less pay…

A number of historians and economists often disagree about the exact causes of the depression (Leuchtenburg, William E.). All throughout the 1930, consumer spending continued to decline, meaning businesses cut jobs, thereby increasing unemployment, schools budgets reduced along with school days and the school year (Leuchtenburg, William E.) (McElvaine, Robert S.). Furthermore, the server drought across America reduced a large amount of agricultural jobs. Many countries worldwide were affected,…

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, Franklin D. Roosevelt became our…

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 the…