Public Works Administration

Early Federal Housing Administration actions enshrined racism, segregation and inequality, and possibly even class competition as public…

(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 new land. (Thesis Statement) The response of FDR and his administration to the problems of The Great Depression were effective because…

fences help the society, because this makes less work for the people. For this, FDR quote “ Spiritual and moral disintegration: on destructive to the national fiber” meaning, and not just sitting around and lazing your butt doing literally nothing, while spending your money, work ( History ). In other words, he disdains people not working, so Franklin gives them a job. Furthermore, the Work Progress Administration officially went out of the public eye in June 1943 (History). Above all, one of…

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…

of the New Deal was the security it gave to Americans. The Alphabet Agencies served many purposes, but they were all used to help Americans during the aftermath of the depression. One agency known as the Works Progress Administration (WPA), employed millions of people to carry out public works projects. The WPA constructed as many as 125,000 government-run buildings, 650,000 miles…

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…

rugged individualism which is how citizens should be independent of government handouts, voluntary cooperation in which workers and managers will voluntarily work together, and the cycling of ups and downs of economy which is how when the economy goes down it will go back up. 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 than Caucasian men, compared to the treatment minorities received. Nonetheless, women struggled under debate as equal citizens in accord with minority efforts. Fortunately, the New Deal provided…

president. Hope was brought to the American people with his election. In his inauguration speech, he addressed the depression by telling the nation that, “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.” Roosevelt and his administration passed a series of law known as the New Deal, the New…

reopen the banks the people flocked to them and the newly opened banks held 90% of the country’s deposits (Rung). This proved that the act was helping the people because they put their trust back into the banks. After the Emergency Banking Act ⅔ of the public had redospited their money back into the banks (Greene). This was further proof that the Emergency Banking Act was helpful to the American people and was a huge step into fixing the banking systems. Another act responsible for fixing the…