• Emergency banking relief act
    • An act that allowed 12 federal reserve banks to issue additional currency on good assets which allowed banks to reopen and to be stable.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
    • It also separated commercial and investment banking and for the first time extended federal oversight to all commercial banks. The FDIC would insure commercial bank deposits of $2,500 (later $5,000) with a pool of money collected from the banks. Small, rural banks were in favor of deposit insurance.
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
    • designed to restore investor confidence in our capital markets by providing investors and the markets with more reliable information and clear rules of honest dealing.
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
    • offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. 
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
    • combats high unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects.
  • Federal Emergency Relief act (FERA)
    • alleviated household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government.
  • Social Security Act
    • Financial security for  old, unemployed, and others
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
    • Bringing electricity to rural areas
  • Wagner act
    • Gave workers the right to unionize. Established the national labor relations board