Question

The Works Progress Administration was a major _______ program of the New Deal; the Public Works Administration was a long-range _____ program; and the Social Security Act was a major ____ program.

Answer 1

Answer:

Relief; recovery; and reform.

Explanation:

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) program was a relief program. The program was created by President Franklin Roosevelt for employment and infrastructural purpose during the time of the Great depression in 1935. The plan was build under the New Deal, with the purpose to bring relief to the country and also to bring the country out of the problems and effects of the Great Depression.

The Public Works Administration was a recovery program created by the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933. The purpose of the program was to recover the nation's major infrastructures such as airports, schools, hospitals, electricity-generating dams, etc.

The Social Security Act was created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935. The purpose of this act was to reform the old-age benefits of aged persons, disabled persons, unemployed workers. The act provides security to these people by giving them benefits on a federal level which was earlier only at the state level.