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New Deal Measures: FDRoosevelt
unit 8
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History
11th Grade
04/26/2009

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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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Emergency Banking Act: 
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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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Banking Act of 1935:
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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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Revenue Act
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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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Section 7a of NIRA: 
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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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Social Security Act
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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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National Housing Act:
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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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