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Resettlement Administration

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The Resettlement Administration (RA) was a New Deal U.S. federal agency created May 1, 1935. [1]

55 relations: Alphabet agencies, Arthurdale, West Virginia, Bakersfield, California, Bernarda Bryson Shahn, Caney Lakes Recreation Area, Cincinnati, Columbia University, Crossville, Tennessee, Cumberland Homesteads, Dust Bowl, Eleanor Roosevelt, Executive order, Farm Security Administration, Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Depression, Greenbelt, Maryland, Greendale, Wisconsin, Greenhills, Ohio, Hickory Ridge, Virginia, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, John Ford, John Steinbeck, Library of Congress, List of federal agencies in the United States, Louisiana, Migrant worker, Milwaukee, National Register of Historic Places, New Deal, Pare Lorentz, Pine Mountain, Harris County, Georgia, Pinson, Alabama, Prince William Forest Park, Rexford Tugwell, Roosevelt, New Jersey, Roy Stryker, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Socialism, Subsistence Homesteads Division, Tenant farmer, The Grapes of Wrath, The Grapes of Wrath (film), The Grapes of Wrath (opera), The Grapes of Wrath (play), The Plow That Broke the Plains, The River (1938 film), Trussville, Alabama, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Department of the Interior, ..., Virgil Thomson, Washington, D.C., Webster Parish, Louisiana, Weedpatch Camp, Works Progress Administration. Expand index (5 more) »

Alphabet agencies

The alphabet agencies (also New Deal agencies) were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Arthurdale, West Virginia

Arthurdale is an unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia, United States.

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Bakersfield, California

Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States.

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Bernarda Bryson Shahn

Bernarda Bryson Shahn (March 7, 1903 – December 12, 2004) was an American painter and lithographer.

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Caney Lakes Recreation Area

Not to be confused with another Caney Lake at Jimmie Davis State Park southwest of Chatham in Jackson Parish, Louisiana Caney Lakes Recreation Area, located in the Kisatchie National Forest north of Minden in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, offers opportunities for bicycling, hiking, picnicking, camping, swimming, boating, water skiing, fishing, and hunting.

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Cincinnati

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Crossville, Tennessee

Crossville is a city in and the county seat of Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States.

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Cumberland Homesteads

Cumberland Homesteads is a community located in Cumberland County, Tennessee, United States.

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Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat and activist.

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Executive order

In the United States, an executive order is a directive issued by the President of the United States that manages operations of the federal government and has the force of law.

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Farm Security Administration

The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression in the United States.

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Federal Emergency Relief Administration

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was the new name given by the Roosevelt Administration to the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had created in 1933.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Greenbelt, Maryland

Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.

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Greendale, Wisconsin

Greendale is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Greenhills, Ohio

Greenhills is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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Hickory Ridge, Virginia

Hickory Ridge is an extinct unincorporated town in Prince William County, Virginia.

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Hopkinsville, Kentucky

Hopkinsville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Christian County, Kentucky, United States.

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John Ford

John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of federal agencies in the United States

This is a list of agencies of the United States federal government.

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Louisiana

Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Migrant worker

A "migrant worker" is a person who either migrates within their home country or outside it to pursue work such as seasonal work.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-36, in response to the Great Depression.

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Pare Lorentz

Pare Lorentz (December 11, 1905 – March 4, 1992) was an American filmmaker known for his movies about the New Deal.

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Pine Mountain, Harris County, Georgia

Pine Mountain is a town in Harris and Meriwether counties in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Pinson, Alabama

Pinson is a city in Jefferson County near Birmingham, Alabama, United States, northwest of Center Point.

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Prince William Forest Park

Prince William Forest Park was established as Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area in 1936 and is located in southeastern Prince William County, Virginia, adjacent to the Marine Corps Base Quantico.

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Rexford Tugwell

Rexford Guy Tugwell (July 10, 1891 – July 21, 1979) was an economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "Brain Trust," a group of Columbia University academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading up to Roosevelt's New Deal.

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Roosevelt, New Jersey

Roosevelt is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.

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Roy Stryker

Roy Emerson Stryker (November 5, 1893 – September 27, 1975) was an American economist, government official, and photographer.

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Sidney Robertson Cowell

Sidney Robertson Cowell (born Sidney William Hawkins, 1903–1995) was an American ethnomusicologist, collector of folk songs, and the wife of the composer Henry Cowell.

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Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

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Subsistence Homesteads Division

The Subsistence Homesteads Division of the US Department of the Interior (DSH or SHD) was a New Deal agency that was intended to give safe residences to urban poor in small plots of land that would allow them to sustain themselves.

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Tenant farmer

A tenant farmer is one who resides on land owned by a landlord.

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

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The Grapes of Wrath (film)

The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 drama film directed by John Ford.

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The Grapes of Wrath (opera)

The Grapes of Wrath is an opera in three acts composed by Ricky Ian Gordon to a libretto by Michael Korie based on John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel of the same title.

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The Grapes of Wrath (play)

The Grapes of Wrath is a 1988 play adapted by Frank Galati from the classic John Steinbeck novel of the same name, with incidental music by Michael Smith.

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The Plow That Broke the Plains

The Plow That Broke the Plains is a 1936 short documentary film which shows what happened to the Great Plains region of the United States and Canada when uncontrolled agricultural farming led to the Dust Bowl.

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The River (1938 film)

The River is a 1938 short documentary film which shows the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States, and how farming and timber practices had caused topsoil to be swept down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico, leading to catastrophic floods and impoverishing farmers.

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Trussville, Alabama

Trussville is a city in Jefferson and St. Clair counties in the State of Alabama.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular areas of the United States.

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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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Webster Parish, Louisiana

Webster Parish (French: Paroisse de Webster) is a parish located in the northwestern section of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Weedpatch Camp

Weedpatch Camp (also known as the Arvin Federal Government Camp and the Sunset Labor Camp) was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) south of Bakersfield, California in 1936 to house migrant workers during the Great Depression.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resettlement_Administration

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