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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civil Works Administration (CWA) - RECOVERY and RELIEF | Provided jobs in teaching, library work. Was created as a subdivision of the FERA, with the objective of a short-term solution to get people back to work. helped both unemployed men and women. continued by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
| Public Works Administration (PWA) - RECOVERY and RELIEF | reduce unemployment and increase purchasing power by building highways and public buildings |
| National Recovery Administration (NRA) - RECOVERY | Promote industrial recovery - established codes for business and ethics - eliminated child labor - enforced minimum wages - Forced businesses to publish reports and join trade - improved labor conditions and aided the unionization movement |
| Works Progress Administration (WPA) | Employed many in construction but just as importantly in the arts, theatre, and literature. The most important one, was combined from CWA and PWA. |
| Federal Emergency Relief Administration - RELIEF (FERA) | Provided direct relief to states to help unemployed workers, both with handouts and work programs (relief programs). Directly led to the creation of many other programs. Provided grants to state governments |
| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) - RECOVERY and REFORM | Reforestation and conservation. Keeping young men off street corners. Known as FDR’s “Tree Army”. Operated under army’s control. Gave unmarried young men jobs. Discrimination of African American. Broke up the dust bowl |
| Tennessee Valley Authority - RECOVERY (TVA) | provide flood control, navigation, energy, and fertilizer manufacturing for Southern Appalachian. African Americans received low level janitorial jobs and women completed clerical work. modernized the region |
| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for stock | Promote a market that is efficient, fair, orderly, and that is worthy of the public’s trust. Enforces laws against insider trading which arrests people for cheating with stock market. Protects investors and companies from illegal trading activity |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - RECOVERY and REFORM - for banks | Address the thousands of bank failures. Insures deposits of up to $2500 against future bank failures. Created by Glass-Steagall Act. Prevent panic and protect banks |
| Social Security Administration - RECOVERY (SSA) | Give old age pensions, unemployment compensation, farm loans, relief work, and mortgage guarantees for more than ⅓ of the American population. Money for this program was collected through taxes. |
| Rural Electrification Administration (REA) | To provide electric service to rural areas. offered loans to farmers |
| Farm Security Administration (FSA) | helped with rural rehabilitation, farm loans, and subsistence homestead programs. |
| National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) | safeguard employees’ rights to organize and to determine whether to have unions. Was created to protect workers from employer coercion. prevents unfair labor practices |
| National Youth Administration (NYA) - RECOVERY | To provide employment for young people to support their families. educate young people. Helped prepare the next generation for work and provided skilled laborers. Allowed youth jobs. |
| Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC) - RELIEF | millions of Americans faced the possibility of losing their homes because of the high unemployment rate and reduced wages. finance them to get their houses back. revolutionized mortgage industry |
| Federal Housing Administration (FHA) - RELIEF | provide payments for losses when a homeowner defaults on his or hers loan. Created after the National Housing Act |
| Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) | regulates air transportation; enforces minimum standards for aircraft operation, manufacture, and maintenance; certification of airports and air personnel. Federal Aviation Act. more safety regulations for aircrafts |
| Federal Communications Commission (FCC) | oversees the television, radio and telephone industries. issuing operating licenses for radio and TV stations to maintaining decency standards designed to protect the public good. regulates all interstate communications |
| Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) for farms | restore agricultural prosperity by curtailing farm production, reducing export surpluses, and raising prices. crop loan and storage program, was established to make price-supporting loans and purchases of specific commodities. |
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