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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) |
United States federal law which restricted agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. |
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Civil Works Administration (CWA) |
rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers; was a project created under FERA. Eventually changed to WPA, as there was criticism concerning no "permanent effect" of the jobs created. |
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Farm Security Administration (FSA) |
Helps to resettle the dust bowl workers; is an effort to help relieve rural poverty. Created under FERA. |
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
provides deposit insurance guaranteeing the safety of a depositor’s accounts in member banks |
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) |
Eventually replaced by the WPA, this was to provide work relief programs. Creates the CCC, CWA, FSA. |
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Federal Housing Administration (FHA) |
It insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying. Tries to improve housing standards and conditions, provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans, and to stabilize the mortgage market. |
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Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) |
reversal of the Dawes Act’s privatization of communal holdings of American Indian tribes and a return to local self-government on a tribal basis. |
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Wagner Act/National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) |
allowed workers to organize labor unions, collective bargain, and to take action such as striking legally |
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National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. Set minimum wage & max hours. |
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National Youth Administration (NYA) |
Part of WPA, this focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25. |
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Public Works Administration (PWA) |
large-scale public works construction agency, and built public things such as dams, bridges, hospitals, and schools. |
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Rural Electrification Administration (REA) |
Provided electricity to the farms, as power companies didn’t want to provide power to rural areas. made loans available to local electrification cooperatives, which operated lines and distributed electricity. |
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Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC) |
Regulated wall street as well as stopped banks from failing – they didn’t want any more bank failures. power to license and regulate stock exchanges, the companies whose securities traded on them, and the brokers and dealers who conducted the trading. |
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Social Security Administration (SSA) |
retirement, disability, and survivors’ benefits. To qualify for these benefits, most American workers pay Social Security taxes on their earnings; future benefits are based on the employees’ contributions. |
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Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) |
established a national minimum wage, guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor" |
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley |
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Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. Also employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects |
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
public work relief program for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18-25. Black segregation existed, but black people were still allowed to join. |
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Emergency Banking Act (EBA) |
allows only Federal Reserve-approved banks to operate in the United States of America. Roosevelt’s actions helped restore credibility (and thus functionality) to the banking system |
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