alphabet Agencies Flashcards
AAA, it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Aim - help farmers increase their profits by adjusting the amount of food they grew.
AAA paid farmers to produce less, as a result, their profits soon increased.
First New Deal
CCC , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Civil Conservation Corps
Aim - work program based on environmental projects, putting 1.6 million Americans to work in camps across the country.
Examples - clearing land, planting trees, cleaning - restoring natural areas
First New Deal
CWA , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Civil Works Administration
Aim - provide work relief to millions of works not covered by the PWA projects. Provided over 4 million Americans with work.
Examples - building roads, sweeping up leaves in parks, getting out of work actors to give free shows.
First New Deal
FCA, it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Farm Credit Administration
Aim - made loans to a fifth of all farmers so that they would not lose their farms.
First New Deal
FERA , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Aim - Provided $500 million to the hungry and homeless.
Examples - Most of the money was used to increase the number of soup kitchens and provided clothing, schools and employment schemes.
First New Deal
HOLC , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Aim - task of helping homeowners continue to pay their mortgage repayments by lending them money at low interests.
Prevented people on losing their home.
First New Deal
NRA , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
National Recovery Association
Aim - ensure that businesses paid their workers fair wages and that they charged fair prices for their goods.
- Increase workers’ wages so that they would have more money to spend on goods.
- Increase the prices of factory goods to help factory owners make more profit and employ more men.
- Give workers a fairer deal in the workplace, including better working conditions and shorter hours.
Examples - codes written up for each industry that fixed prices for the goods, limited workers’ hours, set minimum wages, and forbade child labour. Workers were given the right to join trade unions and brutal strike-breaking practices were outlawed.
First New Deal
PWA , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Public Works Administration
Aim - task of creating work for the unemployed industrial workers by creating big schemes and projects for public benefit, bridges, new houses and roads.
Examples - $7 billion spent to employ skilled men to build dams, bridges, sewage systems and houses. Between 1933 and 1939, 70% of America’s schools and 35% of America’s hospitals were built by PWA.
First New Deal.
TVA , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Tennessee Valley Authority
Aim - building 16 dams on rivers in and around the Tennessee Valley and 35 to control the Tennessee River, providing work for thousands of construction workers and cheap hydroelectricity for homes and industry. Also, dams were built to mitigate devastating flooding in the area.
Examples - cheap electricity provided for farmers and domestic consumers. Became the biggest producer of electricity for America.
Second New Deal
WPA , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Works Progress Administration
Aim - help more of the unskilled unemployed in America. Soon became the country’s largest employer. It gave about 2 million people work a year. 7% of the budget was used to create projects for artists, writers, actors and musicians.
Examples - built schools, new roads and the La Guardia airport in New York City. A windbreak of trees 1600km long to stop further soil losses from the Dust Bowl.
Second New Deal
The Wagner Act, it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
1935
Aim - give workers the right to join and form unions and prevent employers from punishing workers for joining unions.
Trade unions gradually began to gain more power and employers had to listen to them.
The Wagner Act led to the National Labour Relations Board, ensuring that both employers and employees obeyed the new laws about unions.
Second New Deal
SSA , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Social Security Act - 1935
Aim - set up a national system of pensions for old people (over 65), widows, handicapped people and mothers with dependent children, as well as a national system of unemployment insurance, ensuring that people who were out of work would receive unemployment benefits from the government.
Second New Deal
RA , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Resettlement Administration - 1935
AAA had helped farm owners but not sharecroppers, tenants or farmworkers
Aim - Help sharecroppers, tenants and farmworkers, aiming to move 500,000 families to better land and to resettle them in new houses.
Second New Deal
FSA , it’s aim and was it in the first or second deal?
Farm Security Administration
Replaced the RA in 1937.
Aim - gave loans to sharecroppers and tenant farmers to buy their own land. Set up labour camps to help migrant farm works to live in better conditions.
Despite the help, the plight of poor farmworkers remained grim in the 1930s.
Second New Deal
