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| Wagner Act | Established the National Labor Relations Board to settle disputes between employers and employees |
| Wagner Act | Defined unfair labor practices |
| Social Security Act | legislation that created unemployment benefits, old age insurance (retired workers pension), and social programs (aid to families and the disabled) |
| Social Security Act | One of the most important achievements of the New Deal |
| Federal Securities Act | regulated the issuing of and market trading in corporate securities (i.e. stock market) |
| Federal Securities Act | made companies provide complete info on stocks and made them liable for any misrepresentations |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | agency created to build dams and power plants, and to prevent floods in the Tennessee Valley region |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | work-camp program that hired young men to plant trees, build bridges, and work on flood-control projects |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | provided jobs for single males |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | agency created to insure individual bank accounts |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | protected people's funds against bank failure |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | established a minimum hourly wage and a maxium number of hours in the workweek for the entire country |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | Set rules for the employment of workers under 16 and banned hazardous factory work for those under 18 |
| Works Progress Administration | gave jobs to artists, writers, laborers who built public buildings and airports |
| Works Progress Administration | quickly created as many jobs as possible |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | agency created to monitor the stock market and enforce laws regulating the sale of stocks and bonds |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | eliminated dishonest practices in the stock market |
| Emergency Banking Relief Act | provided for the reopening of the banks as soon as examiners had found them to be financially secure by the Treasury Dept |
| National Industrial Recovery Act | created the Public Works Administration (PWA) to create jobs chiefly in the construction of schools and community buildings |
| National Industrial Recovery Act | created the Civil Works Administration (CWA) to build schools, roads, and community buildings, and to pay teachers |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | law created to help (aid) farmers by raising crop prices and lowering production levels |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | paid farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded |
| Federal Home Loan Bank Act | lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance their farm loans to avoid foreclosure |
