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By the time he took office, as many as 13 million Americans – more than a quarter of the labor force – were out of work. Bread lines were a common sight in most cities. Hundreds of thousands roamed the country in search of food, work, and shelter.\"Brother, can you spare a dime?\" was the refrain of a popular song.  \n1. Approximately how many Americans were unemployed when Franklin D. Roosevelt became president?  \n_______________________________________________  \n_______________________________________________  \nAn early step for the unemployed came in the form of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a program that brought relief to young men between 18 and 25 years of age. CCC enrollees worked in camps administered by the army. About two million took part during the decade. They participated in a variety of conservation projects: planting trees to combat soil erosion and maintain national forests; eliminating stream pollution; creating fish, game, and bird sanctuaries; and conserving coal, petroleum, shale, gas, sodium, and helium deposits.  \n2. What government organization employed young men between the ages of 18 and 25 in camps administered by the army?  \n_______________________________________________  \n_______________________________________________  \nA Public Works Administration (PWA) provided employment for skilled construction workers on a wide variety of mostly mediumto large-sized projects. Among the most memorable of its many accomplishments were the Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams in the Pacific Northwest, a new Chicago sewer system, the Triborough Bridge in New York City, and two aircraft carriers (Yorktown and Enterprise) for the U.S. Navy.  \n3. What government organization provided employment for skilled construction workers?  \n_______________________________________________  \n_______________________________________________  \nThe Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), both a work relief program and an exercise in public planning, developed the impoverished Tennessee River valley area through a series of dams built for flood control and hydroelectric power generation. Its provision of cheap electricity for the area stimulated some economic progress, but won it the enmity of private electric companies. New Dealers hailedit as an example of \"grass roots democracy.\"  \n4. What government organization built damsin the Tennessee River valley area?  \n_______________________________________________  \n_______________________________________________  \nThe Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), in operation from 1933  \nVisit www.studenthandouts.com for free interactive test-prep games…no log-in required!  \nName:   Date:   Class:    \nto 1935, distributed direct relief to hundreds of thousands of people, usually in the form of direct payments. Sometimes, it assumed the salaries of schoolteachers and other local public service workers. It also developed numerous small-scale public works projects, as did the Civil Works Administration (CWA) from late 1933 into the spring of 1934 . Criticized as\"make work,\" the jobs funded ranged from ditch digging to highway repairs to teaching. Roosevelt and his key officials worried about costs but continued to favor unemployment programs based on work relief rather than welfare.  \n5. What government organization distributed direct relief to people?  \n_______________________________________________  \n_______________________________________________  \n6. What government organization funded jobs such as ditch digging, highway repairs, and teaching?  \n_______________________________________________  \n_______________________________________________  \n7. Do you agree with Roosevelt’s decision to use federal funds to employ people who were out of work? Explain your answer.  \n\n|  |\n| --- |\n|  |\n|  |\n|  |\n|  |\n|  |","cbCaijl0NJnyXN4m","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijl0NJnyXN4m","pdf",153205,"English","# The First New Deal: Unemployment\n## Key programs and government organizations\n## Comprehension questions","[{\"question\":\"How many Americans were unemployed when Franklin D. 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