New Deal Programs Flashcards
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Help homeowners pay mortgages
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Payed money to farms to limit crops
National Recovery Administration
supervised fair trade codes and guaranteed laborers a right to collective bargaining.
Securities and Exchange Commision
Regulates Stock Market
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
If a bank collapses you can get 250,000 dollars back
Public Works Administration
provided jobs to build roads, subways, trails, public buildings, planted trees
Glass-Steagall Act
Made Federal Deposit Insurance corporation
Works Progress Administration
Created jobs: Workers built highways and public buildings, dredged rivers and harbors, and promoted soil and water conservation. Made Federal Art Project and Social Security.
Federal Art Project
Artist were employed under the government
Civilian Conservation Corps
recruit unemployed young men from urban areas to perform conservation work throughout the nation’s forests, parks, and fields.
Civil Works Administration
short term and aimed at unskilled laborers: roads were improved, bridges were constructed, airports were upgraded, and pipelines were repaired.
Farm Security Administration
resettled poor farmers on more productive land, promoted soil conservation, provided emergency relief and loaned money to help farmers buy and improve farms
National Industrial Recovery Act
Made National Recovery Administration
Labor Relations act
protects the rights of employees to act together to address conditions at work, with or without a union
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Let treasury inspect banks
