In the 1930s, 11 million people were out of work in the United States. President Franklin D. Roosevelt started many new organizations to give people jobs. This was part of his idea for a program to get the nation out of the Great Depression. He called this program the New Deal.
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One organization of the New Deal was the Works Progress Administration or WPA. What type of work did people do when working for the WPA?
A.
taught children in elementary schools
B.
maintained the nation's forests
C.
constructed public buildings
D.
built tanks and planes for the Army