America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal

Recovery Programs

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Barracks at the Gunflint Civilian Conservation Corps camp in winter, north of Grand Marais, Minnsota

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The New Deal programs were known as the three "Rs"; Roosevelt believed that together Relief, Reform, and Recovery could bring economic stability to the nation. Reform programs focused specifically on methods for ensuring that depressions like that in the 1930s would never affect the American public again. These programs, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Social Security Administration tended to focus on the management of money from the stock market and banking sector to the individual citizen.
The Relief programs, on which this section focuses, were implemented to immediately stop the continued economic freefall. These included the Emergency Banking Act, which ensured that only solvent banks remained open, and bank holidays that would close financial institutions when a wave of financial panic occurred. In addition, the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), the Civil Works Administration (CWA), and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided immediate support in the form of cash payments and temporary employment. And, in doing so, helped to develop and repair the American transportation infrastructure, and literally construct the foundations of National Parks across the US.

"The Flash" (Newsletter of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Caledonia, Minnesota.)

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Relief Programs

What happened?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Depression-Era President

Relief and Recovery Workers

The New Deal's Legacy

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21. View West, Detail Mural, Children's Room, Rip Van Winkle Mural, Project of the CWA (Civil Works Administration) Completed May 1934. - Ives Memorial Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

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Even with the establishment of the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), there were still more problems that needed solutions, and quickly! High unemployment remained and there continued to be worries about the public’s welfare. The Civil Works Administration (CWA) was started as a subdivision of FERA with the goal of providing a short-term solution to get people back to work. The projects under CWA were more short term and aimed at unskilled laborers. A large amount of men and women were put to work in the winter of 1933 and 1934 as a result of this initiative. For example, roads were improved, bridges were constructed, airports were upgraded, and pipelines were repaired.   
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Title Sheet - Veterans Lake Dam, Veterans Lake Access Road, Sulphur, Murray County, OK