New Deal Programs

Aimed to provide immediate relief for the American people

• Federal Emergency Relief Act(1933)

  • Created Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

  • Gave states money to support relief programs within their state

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

  • 1933

  • Regulations over banking practices 

  • Protect bank depositors' money if the bank failed

  • Insured up to a certain amount of money 

    • Currently $250,000

• Securities Exchange Act (1934)

  • Created the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

  • Gave federal government regulation of stock trading in public corporations

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933)

  • Created Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

    • Stabilized prices and provided income support through government purchases, marketing boards, and land retirement

• Indian Reorganization Act (1934)

  • Land returned or added to tribal holdings

  • Growth of trivial businesses promoted

  • System of credit is created

  • Self-governance

• Tennessee Valley Authority

  • Set of plans to bring electrical power and economic recovery to farmers in southern states along the Tennessee River

  • Built and improved waterways to prevent flooding

  • Developed use of fertilizer to increase crop growth

  • Preserved natural resources

  • Planted trees

  • Taught better planting methods

• Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

  • Created under National Housing Act (1934)

  • Guaranteed mortgaged with banks

• Jobs programs

  • Civilian Conservation Corps

  • Civil Works Administration

  • Works Progress Administration

  • Mainly involved construction for men

    • Women usually made clothing, mattresses, rugs, brooms, blankets, etc. for those in need

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

  • Created under the Emergency Conservation Act (1933)

  • Employed unemployed, unskilled young men to work on park improvements

• Public Works Administration (PWA)

  • Created under the National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)

  • Paid private contractors to build large-scale projects

• Civil Works Administration (CWA) 

  • Temporary work relief under FERA

• Hired unemployed directly to work on local projects

• Model for WPA

• Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration (WPA) (1935)

  • Funding state and local public works projects

  • Hired unemployed people

  • Largest of all public works programs

• National Youth Administration (NYA) (1935)

  • Created by Executive Order as a subdivision of the WPA

  • Hired young men and women for work programs

• Social Security Act (1935)

  • Created national system of pensions and unemployment insurance

    • Retirement savings

• National Labor Relations Act/Wagner Act (1935)

  • Said workers had the right to organize labor unions, elect representatives to propose interests of the union, collectively bargain

  • Enforced by the National Labor Relations Board

• Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)

  • Restored National Industrial Recovery Act

  • Minimum wage, no child labor

• Federal Project Number One (1935)

  • Created by Works Progress Administration

  • Employed artists, writers, historians, etc. 

  • Five divisions

    • Federal Art Project (FAP) (1935)

    • Federal Music Project (FMP) (1935)

    • Federal Writers Project (FWP) (1935)

    • Federal Theatre Project (FTP) (1935)

    • Historical Records Survey (HRS) (1935)

  • Federal Arts Project (1935)

    • Funding projects in fine art, literature, music, and theater

• National Youth Administration (NYA)

  • Work programs and educational grants for people 16 to 25

  • Helped send high school and college students to continue their education