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BPA:

  • Founded in 1937 by Roosevelt
  • Bonneville Power Administration
  • Located on the Columbia river
  • Made turbines that created electricity
  • The turbines are powered by water in the dams and would spin

NIRA:

  • National industry of Recovery Act
  • Passed by congress on June 16, 1933
  • Granted trade and working standards
  • established codes of fair competition
  • businesses would put a blue eagle in their window to support this

USAA:

  • Homes that 6,000 some people built

PWA:

  • Public Works Association
  • Passed in 1933
  • Made jobs for people
  • Worked on construction sites, schools, dams and hospitals
  • Harold Ickes started it
  • created as many jobs as possible in varieties
  • responsible for 70% new schools and 33% of hospitals built between 1933-1939

 

CWA:

  • Civil Works Administration
  • Made jobs for people
  • Passed in 1933
  • Help women get jobs
  • Got shut down after a year because they ran out of money
  • construction jobs
  • cost government over $800,000,000 to fund

REA:

  • Rural electrification Administration
  • Created in 1935 to make electricity
  • Famers couldn’t afford it so loans were given out

 

FDIC:

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Guaranteed deposited up to a quarter of million dollars in each bank
  • Still used in over 7,000 institutions
  • Established in 1933
  • Created by the Glass-Steagall Act
  • insured peoples money in banks up to $1,000

NLRB:

  • National Labor Relations Board
  • Controlled labor union rights
  • Jurisdiction has been restricted
  • Established as unfair
  • 1934

 

FHA

  • Federal housing act
  • 1934
  • Created regulate the rate of interest
  • Made it cheaper for people to buy houses
  • You had to make special requirements that were thought to be racist
  • Still around today

SEC:

  • Security and Exchange Commission
  • Controlled trading between bonds and stocks
  • Set up laws that businesses had to share certain information for people to work with them
  • 1934
  • Still around today
  • regulates the stock market
  • makes the stock market more secure and stable

FLSA:

  • Fair labor standards act
  • 1935
  • Introduced a 7 day work week
  • Guaranteed time in a half for overtime
  • Established rules for working minors
  • If not introduced we would not have minimum wage

TVA:

  • Tennessee valley authority
  • 1933
  • Started when the government bought land on the Tennessee river so they could build weapons for WWII
  • They provided electricity for cheap with the dam

FERA:

  • Federal Emergency Relief Administration
  • Get rid of household unemployment
  • Roosevelt helped create it when he was government in New York
  • 1933-1935
  • Got unskilled workers to do a lot of physical labor
  • $20 million in direct aid to the unemployed

SSA:

  • Social Security Act
  • 1935
  • Congress had a lot of disagreements on it
  • Helped the elderly get money
  • Had a lot of edits over the years
  • Still around
  • Fight unemployment
  • Safety net for the retired

NRA:

  • National Recovery Association
  • Gave people jobs
  • Made businesses give at least minimum wage
  • 1933

AAA:

  • Agricultural Adjustment Act
  • Help farmer's make money
  • 1933 by Roosevelt
  • controlled the supply of sold crops
  • Paid farmer's to destroy some of their crops and animals
  • 6 million piglets were slaughtered by the government
HOLC:
  • Home Owners loaner association
  • 1933
  • Help owners with loans

SCS:

  • Soil Conservation Service
  • Government gave land for people to grow vegetables on
  • 1935
  • Help control soil when floods came

RFC:

  • Reconstruction Finance Corps
  • Gave loans to banks, state and local
  • gave states loans for emergency relief
  • Hoover started it
  • Ended after WWII

CCC:

  • Civilian Conservation Corps
  • 1933
  • Worked 40 hour weeks and only got paid $30 a month
  • controlled by the US army

WPA:

  • 1935
  • Largest new deal agency
  • made work and provided jobs for the unemployed during the Great Depression
  • employed unskilled workers in construction
  • built roads, bridges, building, and airport runways
  • created camp david
  • created the golden gate bridge

MIA:

  • 1935
  • Hired high school and college youth for work study projects at their schools
  • Eleanor Roosevelt pushed for it
  • allowed many young kids to stay in school
  • created the YMCA

EBRA:

  • March 1933. only took 5 days to pass
  • thousands of banks would shut down
  • they would reorganize the banks and make them better before reopening them
  • Emergency Banking Relief Act

FSA:

  • Federal Securities Act
  • 1933
  • made the stock market a safer place for people to invest their money

BA:

  • Banking Act
  • 1935
  • strength-ed the power of the Federal Reserve making banking safer overall

FFDCA:

  • Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
  • 1938
  • gave the FDA power to regulate these industries
  • Banned false therapeutic claims in drug labeling

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