<Ul> <Li> Civil Works Administration (CWA) </Li> </Ul> <Li> Civil Works Administration (CWA) </Li> <P> 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 . FERA was established as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Act and was replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). </P> <P> Prior to 1933, the federal government gave loans to the states to operate relief programs . One of these, the New York state program TERA (Temporary Emergency Relief Administration), was set up in 1931 and headed by Harry Hopkins, a close adviser to Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt . Roosevelt asked Congress to set up FERA--which gave grants to the states for the same purpose--in May 1933, and appointed Hopkins to head it . Along with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) it was the first relief operation under the New Deal . </P>

When was the federal emergency relief act passed