ALPHABET AGENCIES Flashcards
In what year were the alphabet agencies?
1932
FFF
Ferderal Emgercency Act
500 m to hungry & homeless
CWA
Civil work administration
Work for 4m ppl( temporary relief)
Built 800,000 km of roads
40,000 schools
PWA(nira)
Public work administration
70% of schools built
35% hospitals
Temporary relief- only work for skilled workers
AAA
Agricultural adjustment admin
Help farmers increase profits- destroyed millions of crops
Avoid over production
Relief+recovery
TVA
Tenessee Valley Authority 21 massive dams built by 1970 Electrification of country side Irrigation- "dust bowl" Very costly- RECOVERY
CCC
Civilian Conservation of crops
Employement for men 18-25
Employed 300k (1933)
2.5 m short term employment
NRA ( nira)
National Industrial recovery Act
Garanted the rights of workers
Established min wages-22m workers
RECOVERY
Why did they introdcue the 2nd new deal?
Still 20% unemployment- still high
Massive goverment intervention
Wagner Act
Made it illegal to sack workers whomwere union members
Forced employs to allow thrade unions (NRA)
7m union members by 1930
WPA
Works porgress administration
Gave work to 2m ppl/year
Buikt roads, tunnels, bridges
7% of budget was used to create projects for artistsm writers, actors and musiciens
NYA
WPA for younger ppl
National youth administration
The social security
State pension to over 65 & widows
allowed state goverment work w/ federal gov
The resettlement administracion (1935) & when the farm security admin
AAA- helped farmer owners but not sharecroppers, tenants, farm wokers
RA- help those groups, aimed to move over 500,000 fam to better land
FSA- RA replaced FSA, loans to sharecroppers and tenant farmers to buy their own land .
