Reverse Alphabet Soup Flashcards
Provided subsidies to famers who did/didn’t plant specific crops and killed off excess plants/ livestock
Agricultural Adjustment act (AAA) 1933
Provided young men with employment in government camps. Flood control, fire fighting, etc.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
1933
The CCC is authorized to buy, sell, lend, make payments to increase production
Commodity Credit Corporation 1933
It was designed to provide temporary jobs during the cruel winter emergency. Roads, Bridges, etc.
CWA
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
1933
Gave the president the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange to open closed banks that would survive
Emergency Banking Act (EBA)
1933
Gave small plots of land to the urban poor and supported them with low paying jobs
SHD
Sustainable Homestead Division 1933
Regulates and examines the banks, associations, and related entities of the
Farm Credit System
Lowered framers refinancing rates
Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
Farmers Credit Act
Oversees and regulates all aspects of US aviation
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 1933
Federal Insurance to Banking accounts of up to $2,500.
-Safe and Secure
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
$500 million to support state and local treasuries
FERA
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
1933
Subsidies
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation (FSRC)
Allowed 1/5 of America’s mortgages to become refinanced
HOLC
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC)
1933
Gave the president authority to permit monopolies and cartels. Established a national public works program.
NIRA
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
1933
Codes for business. Fair pay and work hour regulations.
NRA
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
1933
Provided funding to many projects to provide jobs and improve the nations infrastructure
PWA
Public Works Administration (PWA)
1933
Dams constructed to provide cheap hydroelectric power and control flooding.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
1933
Had power to revoke the license of radio stations that failed to operate in public interest.
FCC
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
1934
Granted loans to home buys
- 10% down payment
- 30 year loan
FHA
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
Managed disputes between employers and labor unions
-Rights to organize Unions
NLRB
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
1934
Regulates stocks and bonds trading practices
-Full financial disclosure
SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
1934
Coordinated relief efforts after the Dust Bowl
DRS
Drought Relief Service 1935
Required the disclosure of information about new stock and bond issues
FSA
Federal Security Administration (FSA) 1935
Protected the rights to Labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in strikes
NLRA
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
1935
Supported education and training of youth and provided part time employment
National Youth Administration (NYA)
Government Housing for the urban and rural poor.
RA
Resettlement Administration (RA) 1935
Provide public utilities to rural areas
Rural Electrician Admin (REA) 1935
Guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65 and the handicap and unemployed
Social Security Administration (SSA) 1935
In charge of Social security
Social Security Board (SSB)
1935
Provided relief to the unemployed in fields of theatre, literature, art, etc.
WPA
Works progress Administration (WPA)
1935
Design and build 500 merchant ships
USMC
United States Maritime Commission (USMC) 1936
Created to subsidize rents for the poor and give long term loans to organizations which promised to assume part of the cost slum clearance and public housing.
USHA
United States Housing Authority (USHA) 1937
Minimum wage (40 cent) Overtime payment (40 hour) Somewhat regulated child labor
FLSA
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
1938
Some work projects
Federal Works Agency (FWA) 1939
