New Deal Programs

NRA - national Recovery Administration

led by hugh Johnson, blanket code, oversaw NRA and PWA

AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Act

Goal was to reduce farm production. Paid farmers not to farm and to destroy crops, declared unconstitutional.

NIRA - National Industrial Recovery Act

controversial 7a making it unconstitutional, difficult to enforce demands

reconstruction finance corporation

hoover program, federal loans to banks railroads and others, 1.5 billion budget, some money for public works only if profitable

CWA - Civil Works adminsitration

created after fera, created emergency jobs for unemployed

FERA - Federal emergency relief administration

money to states

glass-steagall

separated commercial banking from investment banking, established FDIC (federal deposit insurance corproation)

voluntarism

hoovers call to business not to fire employees

CCC - Civillian Conservation Corps

paid urban young men to protect environment in segregated camps, a works program

emergency banking act

shut down all banks in u.s. for 4 days

SEC - Securities an d Exchange commision

Oversees the buying and selling of stock

Agricultural Marketing Act

hoovers plan to make loans to cooperatives or establish corporations to buy surpluses

TVA - Tennessee valley authority

build dam in TN, generate and sell electricity, reforest and stop flooding

Bonus army

20000 veterans built camps in DC to get early payment of ww1 bonus, swept out with army tanks

hawley smooth tariff into law

hoover signed this higher tariff into law

national labor relations board

national panel that oversees and intervenes in labor disputes, to be a fair arbiter

court packing

proposal after 1936 election, seen as undemocratic move by fdr

social security

provide money for retirement for those who have pain in, provides unemployment, disability too

WPA - Works progress administration

employed groups such as writers, painters, artists, actors

indian reorganization act

attempted to reverse Dawes act, natives acquired lots of acres and income rose

national youth administration

provided jobs for high school students, others

soil conservation and allotment act

replace the AAA; claimed farmers were paid not to farm in order to conserve soil

fair labor standards act

established minimum wage, maximum hours, banned child labor

home owners refinancing act and home owners loan act

series of proposals to keep ppl from defaulting on their homes, providign stability

public utilities holding company act

to limit and regulated the size and practices of utility companies