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(AAA) Agricultural Adjustment Act |
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1933; Established a system for 7 major commodities that provided cash subsidies to farmers who cut production.
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Resettlement Administration: (RA) |
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1935; Established to help small farmers buy land and to resettle sharecroppers and tenants farmers on more productive land.
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Rural Electrification Administration: |
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1935; brought power to farms in an attempt to improve the quality of rural life; Roosevelt wanted rural Americans to stay on their land.
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closure of all banks and calling of Congress into session. Restored public faith in the banks
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Glass-Steagall Act (FDIC) |
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A banking law that curbed speculation by separating investment banking from commercial banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insured deposits.
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National Industrial Recovery Act: (NIRA) |
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launched the NRA and established a system of industrial self-government to handle the problems of overproduction, cutthroat competition, and price instability that had caused business failures.
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Securities and Exchange Commission: (SEC) |
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regulated the stock market by regulating the purchase of stocks on credit (margin buying) and restricting speculation by those with inside information on corporate plans.
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authorized the president to appoint a new Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve system, placing control of interest rates and other money-market policies at the federal level rather than with regional banks.
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(wealth tax): a tax reform bill that increased estate and orporate txs and instituted higher personal income tax rates in the top brackets; controversial.
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): |
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received legislative approval for its innovative plan of government- sponsored regional development and public energy.
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC): |
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sent 250,000 young men to do reforestation and conservation work.
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guaranteed workers the right to organize and bargain collectively
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National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) |
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offered a degree of protection to labor; industrial workers could join a union, and outlawed unfair labor practices
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National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): |
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established by the Wagner Act; protected workers from employer coercion, supervise elections for union representation, and guarantee the process of collective bargaining.
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in response to Townsend and Long; pensions for most workers provided by a federal tax. Creation of a welfare state in the US.
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mandated the construction of low-cost public housing
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Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): |
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made permanent the minimum wage, maximum hours, and anti-child labor provisions of the NRA codes.
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA): |
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offered federal $ to states for relief programs
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Civil Works Administration (CWA): |
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put people to work in repairing bridges, buidling highways, etc, setting up community projects.
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Works Progress Administration (WPA): |
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main federal relief agency for the depression; put relief workers directly on the federal payroll.
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National Youth Administration: (NYA) |
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gave part time employment to more than 2 million college and high school students.
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