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 Corporation
- 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.SSA. Because it gives money to the retired. Its a safety net for the elderly.
2. EBRA. Shut down banks and reorganized them to make them stronger. Helped many banks from being shut down.
3.FLSA. established minimum wage, 40 hour work week, and time and a half for overtime. Still used today.
4. CCC. Restored trees and other conservation items. Built roads and drainage ways.
5. AAA. The government paid farmer's to till less land. Farmer's were paid to produce less crops and livestock.
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