Praxis II Elementary Education Social Studies (5904) Practice Test

The program described is the New Deal. In the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a broad set of federal initiatives to pull the country out of the Great Depression. A hallmark of the New Deal was funding numerous public works projects to create jobs for the unemployed—buildings, roads, bridges, schools, parks, and other infrastructure—often carried out through agencies like the Works Progress Administration. This approach aimed to put money into workers’ hands, stimulate demand, and revive the economy. The other named programs come from later eras: a postwar domestic agenda under Truman, Kennedy’s space-and-civil-rights era proposals, and Johnson’s comprehensive reforms, none of which match the New Deal’s signature focus on widespread public-works employment funded by the federal government.