FDR New Deal Organizations

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