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
- Farmers couldn’t afford it so loans were given out
- provided farms with inexpensive electricity
- made long term loans
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
- signed by FDR
- criticized for only helping a specific region and not the whole country
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
- each person is given a number
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
AAA:
- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- 1933
- restricted production by paying farmers to reduce the amount of crops planted
- purpose was to to reduce crop surplus so prices would go up
- paid to not till some of their land
- farmers prices more than doubled (1933-1935)
- second passed in 1988
NYA:
- National Youth Association
- 1935
- ages 16-25
- offered courses of arithmetic, writing, and reading
SCDAA:
- Soil Conservation and Domestic Act
- allowed the government to pay farmer's to reduce production
- educated farmers on how to use their land without damaging it
FSA:
- Farm Security Administration
- The dust bowl forced alot of farmers off their land
HOLC:
- Home Owners Loan Coroporation
- typical loan required a 50% down payment in 1930
- They often had to take a second mortgage
- 1933
FHA:
- Federal Housing Administration
- 1934
- insured loans made by banks and other private lenderss
USHA:
- US Housing Authority
- 1937
- designed for low income and homeless people
- made cheap houses
NLRA:
- National Labor Relations Act
- 1935
- conducts elections for unions
- stresses collective bargaining
FLSA:
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- established a national income of 40cents/hr
- established a 40 hour work week
- guaranteed a time and a half for overtime
- still exists today
IRA:
- Indian Reorganization Act
- Abolished the Dawes Act
- 1934
- still around today
1.)FLSA
2.)SCDAA
3.)FDIC
4.)WPA
5.)NIRA
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