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BPA - Boneville Power Administration; turbines that created electricity

NIRA _ national industry recovery act; granted trades

USHA - united states housing administration;

PWA - public works administration; new jobs for people. created as many jobs as possible in many different varieties, built lots of schools and hospitals between 1933-39

CCC - civilian conservation corps; help create jobs

CWA - civil works administration; create jobs, mainly men, paid them 15 dollars a week, they created construction jobs, mainly improving or constructing buildings and bridges, cost the government over 800 million dollars and was cancelled in just one year

REA - rural electrification administration; Roosevelt, 1935, brought electricity to rural areas and farms

FDIC - federal deposit insurance cooperation; guaranteed deposits up to a quarter of a million dollars; insured peoples money in banks up to $1000, passed in response to the bank failures after the stock market crash

NLRB - national labors relations board; 1934, control labor union riots, still around today

SEC - security and exchange commission; controlled trading between bonds and stock

FLSA - fair labor standards act; established 40 hour work week, and other rules

TBA - Tennessee valley authority; government bought land on Tennessee river, build weapons

FERA - federal emergency relief act, distributed more than 20 million dollars in direct aid to the unemployed, help find the unemployed jobs

SSA - social security act; Roosevelt, 1935; federal assistance to the elderly; safety net for retirees; main purpose was to fight unemployment

NRA - national recovery association;

AAA - Agricultural adjustment act; protected farmers from price drops; 1933; Roosevelt

HOLC - home owners loan corperation; refinance homes, sold to lenders

SCS - soil conservation service; conserve soil and control floods

RFC - reconstruction finance corp - gave loans to banks, state and local governments and businesses to create projects for people; gave state loans for emergency relief needs, started under Hoover

CCC

Civilian Conservation Corps - work 40 hours a week and were paid 30 dollars a month, requirement that 25 dollars of it be sent home to family, planted trees, fought forest fires, stopped soil erosion, help construct military bases during WW2

WPA

Works progress administration

established in 1935 largest and most comprehensive New Deal Agency, provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression, primarily employed unskilled workers in construction projects across the nation, built roads, bridges, buildings, airport runways

NYA

National Youth Administration

Established 1935, pushed heavily by Eleanor Roosevelt, would pay high school and college kids to work with younger kids at a YMCA or something, included women

EBRA

Emergency Bank Relief Act

passed in response to thousands of banks that closed down, they would close down the bank, reorganize it and then reopen the bank when it was stable

FSA

Federal Securities Act

Passed in 1933, made the stock market a safer place for people to invest their money, required that investors receive significant information regarding securities being offered for public sale, prohibited deceit, misrepresentations and other fraud in the sale of securities to the public

NRA and NIRA

National Recovery Administration and National Industrial Recovery Act

established codes of fair competition aimed at supporting prices and wages and stimulating economic recovery from the Great Depression, the administration tried to make voluntary agreements dealing with the hour

SEC - established in 1934, this organization regulates the stock market therefore making the market more secure and safer for peoples money

Banking Act of 1935

made the FDIC a permanent agency within the US government , strengthened the power of the Federal Reserve making banking safer overall

FFDCA

Food, Drug and Cosmetic

gave the food and drug administration power to regulate these industries, mandated a review of the safety of all new drugs before going to market

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