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The New Deal
FDR's Plans to bring the United States out of the Great Depression
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History
11th Grade
11/04/2013

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What area is the Emergency Banking Relief Act?
Definition
Banks
Term
What is the area of the Securities Exchange Commission?
Definition
Banks
Term
What area is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
Definition
Banks
Term
What area is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
Definition
Farms and Industry
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What area is the National Recovery Administration?
Definition
Farms and Industry
Term
What area was the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Definition
Farms and Industry
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What New Deal Programs are in the banks area?
Definition
  • Emergency Banking Relief Act
  • Securities Exchange Commission
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Term
What act launched the Securities Exchange Commission?
Definition
Securities Act
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What act created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
Definition
Glass-Stegal Act
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What act started the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
Definition
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
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What act started the National Recovery Administration?
Definition
The National Recovery Act
Term
What is the acronym for the Tennesee Valley Authority?
Definition
TVA
Term
What is the acronym for the agricultural adjustment act?
Definition
The AAA
Term
The acronym for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is the what?
Definition
FDIC
Term
What is the acronym for the Securities Exchange Commission?
Definition
The S.E.C
Term
What is the description of the Emergency Banking Relief Act?
Definition
Surveyed and issued a treasury department license to rarify financial security
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What is the goal of the emergency banking relief act?
Definition
To gain people's trust in the bank system
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Describe the Securities Exchange Commision?
Definition
Required companies that sold stocks and bonds that sold stocks and bonds to provide complete and truthful information to investors
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What is the goal of the Securities Exchange Commission?
Definition
Prevent fraud and regulate the stock market
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Describe the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
Definition
Seperated commercial and investment banking and insured bank deposits up to a certain ammount
Term
What is the goal of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
Definition
Protect Citizen Deposits
Term
Describe the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Definition
Government paid farmers not to grow certain crops or livestock
Term
What is the goal of the agricultural adjustment administration?
Definition
Decrease farm surplus, increase farm income
Term
Describe the National Recovery Administration?
Definition
Controlled industrial production and prices with industry created codes of fair competition
Term
What is the goal of the national recovery administration?
Definition
  • Set Prices
  • Establish minimum wage
  • Shortened hours
  • Limited factories to two shift days
Term
Describe the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Definition
Financed rural electrification and helped develop the economy of a seven state industry
Term
What is the goal of the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Definition
Seven state dam-building project to provide jobs and rural electrification, control floods, and conserve forests
Term
What New Deal Programs are in the area of Debt relief?
Definition
  • Homeowner Loan Corporation
  • Farm Credit Administration
Term
What are the new deal programs for the area of Spending and Relief?
Definition
  • Civilian Conservation Corps
  • Federal Emergency Relief Administration
  • Public Works Administration
  • Civil Works Administration
Term
What is the acronym for the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Definition
C.C.C
Term
What is the acronym for the Federal Emergency relief administration?
Definition
F.E.R.A
Term
What is the acronym for the Public Works Administration?
Definition
P.W.A
Term
What is the acronym for the Civil Works Administration?
Definition
C.W.A
Term
Describe the Homeowner Loan Corporation?
Definition

Bought Mortgages for homeowners who were behind in their house payments for longer terms and smaller interests rates.

Only available to the Middle Class

Term
What was the goal for the Homeowner Loan Corporation?
Definition
To keep people from getting foreclosed
Term
Describe the Farm Credit Administration?
Definition
Refinanced farm loans
Term
What is the goal of the Farm Credit Administration?
Definition
Helped impoverished people hold onto their land
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Describe the civilian conservation corps?
Definition
Hired young men 18-25 for outdoor manual labor jobs
Term
What is the goal of the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Definition
Open up jobs for the unskilled
Term
Describe the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?
Definition
Gave money to state and local agencies to try their own relief efforts
Term
What is the goal of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?
Definition
Create more jobs
Term
Describe the Public Works Administration?
Definition
Government provided jobs, projects improved government facilities, schools, etc.
Term
When was the Public Works Administration created?
Definition
1933
Term
What was the goal of the Public Works Administration?
Definition
Gave contracts to construction companies and insisted contractors hire African American
Term
Civil Works Administration was started when?
Definition
1934
Term
Describe the Civil Works Administration?
Definition
Hired workers directly on government payrolls
Term
What was one of the shortest running new deal programs?
Definition
The C.W.A
Term
What was the goal of the Civil Works Administration?
Definition
To create jobs to help families get through the winter
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