Banking Reform
Helped increase recreational travel & tourism within the United States.
What is U.S. Travel Bureau (1937)?
Created a national system of pensions, unemployment insurance and aid to mothers with children, and created Social Security Administration (SSA) to administer it.
What is the Social Security Act (1935)?
Built roads in national parks & forests, assisted states with road construction, helped beautify highways, and conducted various transportation studies.
What is the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) (1918)?
Ended free grazing on federal lands and created regulated grazing districts across the country, administered by a new Grazing Service in the Department of the Interior.
What is the Taylor Grazing Act (1935)?
Created to promote and protect Indian arts and crafts.
What is the Indian Arts and Crafts Board (1935)?
Insured bank deposits against bank failure, up to a certain level.
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (1933)?
Distributed surplus food and commodities to those in need.
What is the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation (FSCC) (1933)?
Created by Executive Order to bring electricity to isolated rural areas.
What is the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) (1935)?
Created bird and wildlife refuges on federal land and created a sound funding system for purchasing marginal farmlands for new refuges.
What is Fish & Wildlife Conservation Acts (1934)?
An offshoot of the Federal Theatre Project, created to provide special opportunities for unemployed dancers.
What is the Federal Dance Project (1936)?
Called in all private gold and created a government hoard (Fort Knox).
What is Gold Reserve Act (1934)?
Insured the right of workers to organize, provides for a national minimum wage and outlaws child labor.
National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)?
Hired young men and women, both in and out of school, for works programs.
What is the National Youth Administration (NYA) (1935)?
A large tree-planting project in the Great Plains, to protect against wind erosion and to provide work for the unemployed.
What is the Shelterbelt Project (1934)?
Created by the WPA to employ artists, writers, historians and other professionals.
What is the Federal Project Number One (Federal One) (1935)?
Introduced measures to reduce crop supply, stabilize prices and support farm incomes.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933, Reauthorized 1938)?
Restored rights lost when the National Industrial Recovery Act was overturned by the Supreme Court: minimum wage and no child labor.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)?
Paid private contractors to build large-scale projects proposed by states.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA) (1933)?
Helped stop soil erosion and water loss on degraded farmlands.
What is the Soil Conservation Act (1935)?
Created the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to guarantee mortgages with banks.
What is the National Housing Act (1934)?
Gave the president emergency powers over the US banking system, under which he called a ‘bank holiday’ to allow evaluation of all banks and closure of insolvent ones.
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933)?
Gave financial aid to states to support local relief programs for the destitute.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Act (1933)?
Put unemployed, unskilled young men to work on rural and park improvements.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) (1933)?
Transferred all national monuments and battlefields under the National Park Service by Executive Order, as well as federal buildings in Washington D.C.
What is the Federal Parks Reorganization (1933)?
Improved housing for low-income residents of Washington, DC.
What is the Alley Dwelling Authority (1934)?