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. |