Alphabet Agencies Flashcards
Who and how did the HOLC help
Group: home owners
What Did they do: gave low interest loans to people who couldn’t pay their mortgages.
who and how did the FERA help?
group: homeless people
What did they do: $500 million given to states to spend on soup kitchens, blankets, clothes and nurseries
Who and how did the FCA help
Group: farmers
What did they do: gave loans to farmers who couldn’t pay mortgages.
Who and how did the AAA help
Group: farmers
What did they do: paid farmers to produce less and destroy their crops. Good prices rose and their incomes doubled between 1933 and 1939
Who and how did the NRA help
group: workers
What did they do: encouraged employers to improve conditions and wages to allow union membership
Who and how did the PWA help
Group: unemployed builders
What did they do: spent $3300 million to employ skilled workers to build schools, houses, Hospitals, bridges, dams, 50 airports and 10 ships
Who and how did the CCC help
Group: unemployed 18-25 year olds
What did they do: unemployed 18-25 year olds did conservation work in the countryside
Who and how did the CWA help
Group: unemployed
What did they do: provided temporary work for 4 million men building infrastructure. Actors and artists were also given jobs
Who and how did the TVA help
Group: people in Tennessee
What did they do: created dams on the Mississippi to irrigate farmland and prevent flocking. This also created jobs and electricity
Who and how did the Social security act help
Group: people who couldn’t work
What did they do: Provided state permissions to elderly and widows. They also set up unemployment insurance
Who and how did the The Wagner act help
Group: workers
What did they do: made it illegal to sack workers in trade unions and encouraged negotiation between employers and workers
Who and how did the The works progress administration help
Group: unemployed
What did they do: brought together all jobs that made jobs. Also created jobs for office workers
Who and how did the The resettlement administration help
Group: farmers
What did they do: moved over 500,000 families to better quality land and gave loans to small farmers to help them buy land.
What were the alphabet agencies?
Part of President Roosevelt’s New Deal, to help solve problems of the depression.
Who did the alphabet agencies help?
- homeowners
- farmers
- unemployed
- workers
- non-essential workers: artists and researchers
