APUSH New Deal

Federal Emergency Relief Admin/FERA (Relief)

funded thousands of work projects for the unemployed

Civilian Conservation Corps/CCC (Relief)

took unmarried men aged 18-25 from relief rolls and sent them into the woods and fields to work on conservation projects

Civil Works Administration/CWA (Relief)

• Employed four million people

• Construction jobs such as repairing schools, laying sewer pipes, and building roads

• Some jobs, however were criticized as useless (e.g., leaf raking)

Public Works Administration/PWA (Relief/Recovery)

Construction projects including public buildings, highways, bridges (e.g., San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge), and dams for water and power

Works Progress Administration/WPA (Relief)

• Built thousands of roads, bridges, schools, post offices, and other public construction projects

• thousands of unemployed writers, musicians, artists, actors, and photographers temporarily went on the federal payroll, producing public projects ranging from murals to national park guidebooks

National Youth Administration/NYA (Relief)

jobs for young people including job training and part time jobs for needy students

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp/FDIC (Reform)

• insure bank customers against the loss of up to $5,000 of their deposits if their bank should fail.

• Created by Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act of 1933

National Recovery Administration/NRA (Recovery)

promote economic recovery by enduring wage and price deflation and restoring competition by setting fair business codes and quotas

Securities and Exchange Commission/SEC (Reform)

Federal watchdog administrative agency to protect public and private investors from stock market fraud, deception, and insider manipulation on Wall Street

Agricultural Adjustment Act/AAA (Recovery)

paid farmers to burn crops, not plant more crops, and kill livestock in order to reduce surpluses (which had been caused by overproduction) so that prices would rise.

Tennessee Valley Authority/TVA (Reform)

built twenty dams to control flooding, generate hydroelectric power, increase agricultural production, and revitalize the Tennessee Valley region

Rural Electrification Administration/REA (Reform)

gave low-cost loans to farm cooperatives to bring power into their rural communities

Farm Security Administration/FSA (Relief)

set up temporary housing for “Okies” and “Arkies”

Federal Housing Administration/FHA (Recovery)

provided small loans for home construction and repair

Home Owners’ Loan Corporation/HOLC

Loaned money at low interest to homeowners who could not meet mortgage payments

National Labor Relations Act/NLRA (Reform)

• Wagner Act

  • protect the rights of organized labor to organize and collectively bargain with employers=FINALLY GET THE RIGHT TO BE RECOGNIZED!!!

Fair Labor Standards Act/FLSA (Reform)

set minimum wage (25 cents an hour) and maximum hour standards (establishing the 40-hour work week) It also severely curbed child labor

Indian Reorganization Act/IRA (Reform)

• Reversed Dawes Act of 1887

• tried to stop the loss of Indian lands and encouraged Native American tribes to establish local self-government and to preserve their native crafts and traditions

Social Security Administration/SSA (Reform)

national pension fund for retired persons