Name - ______________________
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Block -
Emergency Banking
Relief Act
Relief,
Recovery
Civilian
Conservation
Corps (CCC)
Federal Emergency
Relief
Administration
(FERA)
Agricultural
Adjustment Act
(AAA)
Allowed well-run banks to reopen and closed troubled banks. This build up trust in the country’s banks again.
Very popular program where 2.5 million young people were hired to plant trees, build levees for flood control, and improve parks for $30 per month. Did not make a serious dent in unemployment and some minorities were excluded.
Pumped $500 million into states relief payments and food for the unemployed.
Relief
Relief
Recovery
Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA)
National Recovery
Administration
(NRA)
Public Works
Administration
(PWA) sought to raise farm prices and control production of farm goods. Paid farmers to NOT grow crops in some fields.
This lowered supply and drove up prices. Farmers incomes rose 50% during the first three years of the New Deal, but Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for invading the states’ reserved powers
Built hydroelectric power plants and flood control dams in seven states in the
Tennessee River region.
Set up voluntary agreements among businesses to cut excess production. The agreements covered production, prices, wages, and hours of work.
Provided government money to people to spend on industrial projects such as dams, sewers,
Recovery,
Relief
Recovery,
Reform
Relief,
Recovery

Federal Deposit
Insurance
Corporation
(FDIC)
Securities and
Exchange
Commission (SEC)
Civil Works
Administration
(CWA) and ports. Did not have enough money to be successful despite spending $6 billion in six years
Protected people’s bank deposits, thus eliminating the problem of “bank runs” that were a serious problem in the early 1930s.
Created to supervise the stock market and protect investors from dishonest practices. put 2.6 million men to work in its first month. Within two months it employed four million men building 250,000 miles of road, 40,000 schools,
150,000 privies, and 3,700 playgrounds. In March 1934, however, Roosevelt scrapped the CWA because he (like
Hoover) did not want to run a budget deficit or to create a permanent dependent class.
Reform
Reform
Recovery,
Relief
Public Works
Administration
(PWA);
Works Progress
Administration
(WPA)
National Labor
Relations Act
Social Security
Act
Created jobs for millions of unemployed people constructing roads, hospitals, post offices, parks, and many other projects. The WPA also included a program that hired out-of-work artists, photographers, actors, and writers for a wide range of artistic and educational projects.
Gave labor unions the right to organize and represent workers in collective bargaining.
Created a federal system of old-age pensions and assistance for orphans and the disabled. It also created an unemployment insurance system.
Relief,
Recovery
Reform
Relief,
Reform

Fair Labor
Standards Act
Set up the first national minimum wage law and abolished child labor.
Reform