What second new deal program employed 8.5 million people to construct highways,
parks, and public buildings?

a: the national union for social justice
the tennessee valley b: authority (tva)
c: the works progress d: administration (wpa)
the townsend proposal

The works progress Administration ( WPA )  ( C )

Explanation:

The works progress administration deal was created by president Roosevelt  in 1935. it provided jobs mainly for unskilled men and women running into over 8.5 million people. the women where drafted into working in sewing rooms and libraries while the men where used mainly in construction works,  WPA was later renamed to works projects administration in 1939

1. temperance, abolitionist, suffragist