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 Civil Works Administration - Definition 

The Civil Works Administration was established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to create make work jobs for tens of thousands of the unemployed. The jobs were to be merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter. Harry L. Hopkins was put in charge of the organization. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the CWA on November 8, 1933. It was replaced due to the Federal Emergency Relief Act in 1934.

References

Kennedy, David M., Cohen, Lizbeth, Bailey, Thomas A. The American Pageant. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

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