| A | B |
| CCC | young men got jobs planting trees, building bridges and parks, and setting up flood control projects |
| WPA | jobs building hospitals, schools, parks and airports; and gave jobs to artists, writers, and musicians |
| PWA | built ports, schools, and aircraft carriers |
| NRA | helped make standards for fair practices in production, price and wages |
| FDIC | Insured bank savings accounts up to $5,000 |
| SEC | Regulated stock market and sale of stocks and bonds |
| AAA | paid farmers not to grow certain crops |
| SSA | set up a system of old age pensions for the elderly, the unemployed and people with disabilities |
| FDR | democratic president of New Deal |
| TVA | built dams to provide cheap electric power to 7 Southern states; set up schools and health centers |
| FERA | gave help to the unemployed and needy (poor) people |
| REA | loaned money so people living in remote, rural (farming) areas could get electricity |
| FSA | lent money to sharecroppers (farmworkers who didn't own the land), set up camps for migrant (traveling) workers |
| FLSA | set minimum wages and maximum hours for all businesses that sold goods in more than one state |
| NIRA | created the NRA; laws designed to help the economy by helping business regulate itself. |