Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration (later Works Projects Administration, abbreviated WPA) was the largest federal agency of the United States, which was created in the wake of the New Deal. She was designed as a job-creation authority for the millions of unemployed during the Great Depression.
History
The WPA was established on May 6, 1935 of Executive Order 7034 to life and passed in the wake of Harry Hopkins. It represented a particularly workers and craftsmen who were mostly employed in road construction. Thus, under the direction of the EPA more than one million road kilometers and tens of thousands of bridges were built, also many airfields and residential buildings.
The largest single project of the WPA was the Tennessee Valley Authority, which knew the impoverished Tennessee Valley with barrages and hydroelectric plants and the region so made for today 's largest power company in the USA. Also, the country home of the U.S. president, at Camp David in Maryland, and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco were built by the WPA.
The Department Federal One provided a well unprofitable intellectuals and artists working in different programs and their work should benefit the public welfare and the nation:
- Federal Writers ' Project ( FWP )
- Historical Records Survey ( HRS)
- Federal Music Project (FMP )
- Federal Art Project (FAP )
So many former slaves were interviewed in the southern states on behalf of the Historical Records Survey about; these documents are for the American historiography of great importance. Theatrical and musical groups toured the American province and brought it to a total of more than 225,000 performances. The archaeological excavations under the EPA were influential for exploring the pre-Columbian Indian cultures and the development of professional archeology in the United States.
On 4 December 1943, the EPA by President Franklin D. Roosevelt was resolved, because the unemployment declined abruptly by the entry of the United States into the Second World War the end of 1941 and the subsequent recovery of the U.S. defense industry.