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| National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
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| Encouraged businesses to set a minimum wage and abolish child labor. Tried to set standards for production, prices, and wages. The symbol for this agency is a blue eagle. |
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| Social Security Act (SSA) |
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Definition
| Set up a system of pensions for the elderly, unemployed, and people with disabilities. This was funded by a tax on workers and employers. |
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| Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) |
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Definition
| This act, passed in 1938, banned mild labor, set a minimum wage of 90 cents per hour and established maximum hours for all businesses engaged in interstate commerce. Along with the Wagner Act it formed the basis of a labor rights. |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) |
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Definition
This act had 2 goals: to raise farm prices quickly and to control production so that farm prices would stay up over the long term. It actually paid farmers to destroy what they had produced. |
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| Used to bring in more government funds. Raised taxes on wealthy people and corporations. |
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| Farm Security Administration (FSA) |
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Definition
| This agency lent money to sharecroppers and set up camp for migrant workers |
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| National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) |
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Definition
| Also called the Wagner Act. FDR believed this was the most important law ever passed. It was intended to boost the economy by making business regulate itself. It created the NRA and PWA |
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| What FDR promised to the American people when he took the Democratic presidential nommination in 1932. His plan to beat the Great Depression, it becomes the cornerstore of all domestic policy under his administration |
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| Works Progress Administartion (WPA) |
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Definition
This agency gave people jobs. The employees built or repaired an enormous number of airports, building, bridges, and miles of roads. Found work for unemployed writers, artists, and musicans who documented life in America |
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| Rural Electrification Administartion (REA) |
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Definition
| 1935, loaned money to extend electricity to rural areas. Groups apposed the federal government's involvement in developing and distributing electric power. Utility companies believed that government was unfairly competing with enterprise |
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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Definition
| The first New Deal alphabet agency, passed 7 hours into Congress' 100 Days. Gave the president major power over banking industry. Set guidelines so banks could reorganize and open again. Helped end banking crisis. |
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| Civilian Conservation Corporation (CCC) |
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Definition
| One of the first to be formed. It employed about 2.5 million young men. The jobs benefited the public through tree planting, flood control, and main tenance of national parks. Conceivably the most popular of all alphabet agencies. |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) |
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Definition
| FDR appointed Harry Hopkins to lead this agency that gave money to the states to provide relief for people in need, thereby providing funds to directly assit the needy. |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation (REC) |
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Definition
| A Herbert Hoover agency. Lent money to businesses. It also provided funds for state and local programs providing relief. Many saw it as too little, too late. |
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| Public Works Administration (PWA) |
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Definition
| Established in 1935, the goal of this agency was to stimulate the economy through the bulding of huge projects that needed large number of workers. It employed people to construct roads, shipyards, hospitals, city halls and schools |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
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Definition
| This agency aimed to control flooding, promote conservation, and bring electricity to rural areas. Along with REA, highly controversial. |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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Definition
| Designed to protect the public against fraud, deception, and inside manipulation on Wall Street. |
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