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Who was Franklin D, Roosevelt?

New Deal?

What was the New Deal?

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States. He was Democratic, and served from March 1933 to April 1945, when he died. He beat Hoover in the election, and restored the country's wealth after leading America through the Great Depression. He enacted the New Deal within the first hundred days of his election, and improved the economy rapidly in the four proceeding years.

The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted mostly between 1933 and 1936, focusing on the Three R's: Relief, Recovery and Reform. The New Deal allowed the Democratic Party to have full control over the government's houses, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt spearheading the attack on the Great Depression.

The CWA

Convinced that employment was better than free cash handouts, Roosevelt established the Civil Works Administration, which established jobs for many unemployed people. With his help, CWA workers laid over 12 million feet of sewer pipe and built over 255,000 miles of roads, 40,000 schools, 3,700 playgrounds and nearly 1,000 airports.

The Ending of the CWA

It ended on March 31, 1934, after spending $200 million a month and giving jobs to 4 million people.

Conclusion

What is the CWA?

Opposition

There were many taxpayers who saw leaves being raked but nothing of permanent value. Roosevelt told his cabinet that this criticism moved him to end the program and replace it with the WPA which would have long-term value for the society, in addition to short-term benefits for the unemployed.

The CWA was a short-lived U.S. job creation program implemented by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs to millions of unemployed workers.

What was the Great Depression?

The CWA provided much needed relief to those suffering in the Great Depression.

The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. The Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, and left between 13-15 million people unemployed. President Franklin D. Roosevelt would try to lessen the effects of the Great Depression by creating new jobs and programs, including the New Deal.

Civil Works Administration (CWA)

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