Banking & Business
This act allowed only healthy banks to reopen after review.
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
This act established pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance, and aid for the disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
This southern region benefited from jobs and electricity thanks to a New Deal agency.
What is the Tennessee Valley?
This agency employed young men to plant trees and build parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The reason the New Deal was created.
What is the Great Depression?
This agency’s main goal was to insure bank deposits and restore trust in banks.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
This part of the Social Security Act was not included in 1935.
What is free college tuition?
This was one of the key criticisms of the AAA’s crop-destruction policy.
What is wasting food while people were starving?
This was the largest New Deal agency, employing artists, writers, and laborers.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
These were the three “R’s” of the New Deal.
What are Relief, Recovery, and Reform?
This agency was created to regulate the stock market and prevent fraud.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
This agency provided direct aid to families during the Great Depression.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)?
Many critics accused the New Deal of increasing this ______ government debt.
What is deficit spending?
This agency funded large-scale public works like bridges, schools, and hospitals.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
During the First 100 Days, FDR closed all banks temporarily in this event to restore public confidence.
What is the Bank Holiday?
This act was passed to stabilize industries and set fair competition rules.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)?
This program aimed to help farmers by paying them to cut production and raise prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
FDR’s New Deal permanently expanded this role of the U.S. government.
What is the federal government’s involvement in the economy?
This agency provided jobs while building dams and power plants in the South.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This program aimed to promote fair wages and working conditions for industries.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)?
This phrase described FDR’s early burst of legislation to tackle the Depression.
What are the First 100 Days?
New Deal agency like _______ built infrastructures like dams and power plants, providing electricity and jobs to the Tennessee Valley region
What is Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This term describes how the New Deal transformed citizens’ expectations of government responsibility.
What is the social safety net?
This New Deal agency was controversial for destroying crops to raise prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
FDR used these informal radio talks to explain policies directly to the public.
What are the Fireside Chats?