The New Deal

In the year of 1932, President Roosevelt was elected the thirty-second president of the United States. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the one who introduced The New Deal. The New Deal was created to give unemployed people jobs.

In The New Deal, there were many programs but we will explain the three main programs. The first was the Work Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA hired people to work on public projects. They worked on slum clearance, flood control, rural electrification, and the construction of school and hospital buildings. WPA also hired writers and artists to write research papers and paint murals.

The second was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). This program was created to conserve natural resources in the country like timber, soil, and water. CCC provided jobs and employment for those in need of work. CCC also planted about two hundred million trees!

The third program was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The TVA was started in 1933 to harness the Tennessee River. There were about nineteen thousand employees in the TVA program. The TVA program built about fifty dams for many reasons. The different purposes the dams were: electrical power, flood control, increased the region's water supply, and others.