The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of laws, programs, and government agencies enacted to help the
country deal with the Great Depression. These laws placed regulations on the stock market,
banks, and businesses. They helped put people to work and tried to help house and feed the poor.
Many of these laws are still in place today like the Social Security Act. The New Deal is
sometimes referred to as "Alphabet Soup" because it started many new government agencies that
went by letters. What programs did the New Deal create? It created:
• Federal Emergency Relief Administration
• United States Bank Holiday 1933
• Abandonment of Gold Standard 1933
• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
• Work Progress Administration (WPA)
The New Deal helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the great
depression. It helped the Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, White
Americans and Asian Americans.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure
program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest years of the Great
Depression. The WPA proved to be the most sympathetic to the needs of women among other
agencies, its project helped to place women in white collar occupation. One third of all the
women employed under the WPA were clerical, professional, and technical workers.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program that gave millions of young
unmarried men employment on environmental projects during the Great Depression. It was
created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The CCC helped the Black young
Americans. Approximately 250,000 colored youth have served in the corps since President
Roosevelt and the Congress initiated the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. The CCC help
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