1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
On March 31, Congress passed the Unemployment Relief Act, which also created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a program that employed the poor with public work and services (Leuchtenburg, p.92). ... Roosevelt pushed the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act through Congress to replace the main functions of the AAA. ... The New Deal lost momentum as a conservative coalition in Congress passed cuts in relief programs and blocked further acts proposed by Democratic New Deal supporters. ...
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