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| Emergency Banking Relief Act | 1933- gave the president power to regulate banking transactions and to reopen only solvent banks |
| Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act | 1933- The act itself made 750 million dollars that had once been kept in the governments gold reserves now able to be used in the creation of loans of private businesses |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | Insured individual bank deposits up to $5,000, ending the epidemic of bank failures |
| Federal Securities Act | 1933 - established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)- which oversses trading on the stock market so that it is fair and transparent |
| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | Sent 3 million young men to government camps on federally owned land to do useful work including reforestation, swampe drainage, flood control, and trail building |
| Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) | Led by social workers Harry Hopkins, this group dispersed payments to the states to pay for state-level work projects. It allocated $500 million to reliieve cities and states |
| National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) | Focused on fighting unemployment and regulating unfair business practices; pumped money into the job market and created codes of ethics for business |
| Civilian Works Administration (CWA) | A make-work program created to ease suffering during the winter of 1933-34 |
| Farm Credit Administration | designed to help rural Americans refinance their farmland; also helped to restore the livelihood that was missing in agriculture |
| Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) | Provided money to non-farm homes, and was aimed at helping the middle class |
| Public Works Administration (PWA) | Headed by Herald Ickes, the Secretary of Interior, the PWA was a governmental agency that spent 4 billion on 34,000 public works projets including dams, bridges, and public buildings |
| Tennessse Valley Authority (TVA) | Pushed for by Senator George Norris, it was a governmental agency that ruled several federal programs of building dams, the construction of hydroelectric dams, and controlling floods. Curtailed with nuclear plants were introduced |
| Rural Electrification Administration (REA) | agency that provided low-interest loans to utility companies and farms' cooperatives to reach the 90% of rural farmers who lacked electrical power |
| Works Progress Administration | Led by Harry Hopkins; build roads, bridges, schools, etc. included the FEDERAL ARTS PROJECT, which created positions for artists by making positions for art teachers and decorating posts for offices and courthouses with murals |
| Wagner Act | 1935- defined unjust labor practices, secured workers the right to bargain collectively, and established the National Labor Relations Board. Catalyzed the force of unionization |
| National Labor Relations Board | Oversaw the Wagner Act; controlled the secret ballot elections during collective bargaining and managed the complaints of unfairness by the employers or unions |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | Undermined the South's competitive edge; establisehd a minimum wage; created a 44 hour workweek; banned child labor |
| Social Security Act | 1935- supported old-age advantages; expanded to include dependent, the disabled |
| Reconstruction Finance Corp (RFC) | (Hoover) Created under the presidency of Herbert Hoober, the RFC was designed to give out loans to banks, railroads, and monopolistic companies in order to pump money back into the economy during the years of the Depression |
| Federal Home Loan Act | (Hoover) 1931 - Home oan Board created banks to handle home mortgages; provided money to homeowners that needed loans |
| National Credit Corporation | (Hoover) Got the largest banks in the country, at that time, to provide lending agencies that would be able to give banks, on the brink of foreclosure, money that could be used for loans |
| Emergency Committee for Employment | (Hoover) 1930- Coordinated efforts between other agencies in order to provie relief for the massive unemployed |
