History of the United States II / Unit 18 USH2 2560 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Answer to Coxey
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The idea
The Works Progress Administration built more than two thousand five hundred hospitals and five thousand nine hundred schools, entry 1535 records, putting the unemployed to work on public projects.
In practice
Federal public works, the demand of Coxey's marchers in eighteen ninety-four.
Where people slip
Entry 1535 draws the link: Coxey asked for federal public works, and the New Deal supplied them.
Your place on the trail
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