Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935
Great Seal of the United States
Long titleJOINT RESOLUTION Making appropriations for relief purposes
Enacted bythe 74th United States Congress
Citations
Statutes at Large49 Stat. 115
Legislative history
  • Introduced in the House as H.J. Res. 117
  • Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 8, 1935

The Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 was passed on April 8, 1935, as a part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. It was a large public works program that included the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the National Youth Administration, the Resettlement Administration, the Rural Electrification Administration, and other assistance programs.[1] These programs were called the "second New Deal". The programs gave Americans work, for which the government would pay them. The goal was to help unemployment, pull the country out of the Great Depression, and prevent another depression in the future. This was the first and largest system of public-assistance relief programs in American history, and it led to the largest accumulation of national debt.[2]

  1. ^ "FDR signs Emergency Relief Appropriation Act - Apr 08, 1935 - HISTORY.com". HISTORY.com. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
  2. ^ J., Grapes, Bryan (2001). Franklin D. Roosevelt. Greenhaven Press. ISBN 0737705043. OCLC 726997221.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)