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AAA
Reduce overproduction of crops to try to raise farm prices
CCC
Employed people to work on public spaces
Civil Works Administration
Gave jobs working on infrastructure
Emergency Banking Act
Reopened failed banks
Emergency Farm Mortgage Act
Helped farmers repay mortgages
FERA
Helped needy/unemployed
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
Created FDIC and prevented Banks from investing in the Stock Market
FDIC
Insures banks up to a certain amount
Home Owner’s Loan Act
Allowed people to refinance home mortgages
NIRA
Instituted minimum wage and created programs to create jobs
NRA
Enforced laws regulating working conditions, prices, and wages
Public Works Administration
Got workers to build public projects
TVA
Created power/improved conditions in Tennessee River Valley
Truth-in-Securities Act
Reduced fraud by requiring information pertaining to stocks and bonds and created SEC
FHA
Insured bank loans for renovating and constructing houses
Indian Reorganization Act
Ensured Indians could keep control of their reservation land
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
Outlawed blacklisting of workers, and guaranteed right to organize, strike, and bargain. Created NLRB
Public Utility Holding Company Act
No more than two companies can control a utility company
Resettlement Administration
Provided loans to small farmers so that they could resettle somewhere else
Revenue Act
Created new taxes so that the government could fund everything
Rural Electrification Act
Provided money to pay for new power plants
Social Security Act
Pensions for retired workers, unemployment and disability compensation, and assistance for dependent and orphaned children
WPA
5 year program to create 8 million jobs
Soil Conservation Act
Paid farmers for rotating crops or not planting them at certain times
FSA
Helped Migrant Farmers/Sharecroppers purchase land and built camps
National Housing Act
Low-rent public housing projects
Fair Labor Standards Act
Banned child labor, instituted minimum wage and minimum work hours per week
