History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1535 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What the WPA Built
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The idea
The Works Progress Administration built more than two thousand five hundred hospitals, five thousand nine hundred schools and five hundred seventy thousand miles of road, the anchor records.
In practice
Unemployed men and women working on projects that local governments designed and proposed, the Yawp says.
Where people slip
Coxey's marchers of unit five asked for federal public works in eighteen ninety-four; this is the answer.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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