Provided jobs for single males on conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
100
Provided job training for unemployed young people and part-time jobs for needy students.
What is the National Youth Administration (NYA)?
100
Created seven-member board to regulate the nation's money supply and the interest rates on loans.
What is the Banking Act of 1935?
100
Loaned money at low interest to homeowners who could not meet mortgage payments.
What is the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)?
100
Provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and aided people with disabilities.
What is the Social Security Administration?
200
Helped states to provide aid for the unemployed.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)?
200
Banks were inspected by Treasury Department and those stable could reopen.
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)?
200
Required manufacturers to list ingredients in foods, drugs, and cosmetic products.
What is the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDC)?
200
Insured loans for building and repairing homes.
What is the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)?
200
Repealed prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
300
Created jobs on government projects.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
300
Protected bank deposits up to $5000.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
300
Aided farmers and regulated crop production.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?
300
Provided federal loans for low-cost public housing.
What is the United States Housing Authority (USHA)?
300
Regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
What is the Federal Communications Commission?
400
Provided work in federal jobs.
What is the Civil Works Administration (CWA)?
400
Established codes of fair competition.
What is the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
400
Developed the resources of the Tennessee Valley.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
400
Defined unfair labor practices and established a board to settle disputes between employers and employees.
What is the National Labor Relations Board (Wagner Act)?
400
Provided assistance to tenant farmers to help them purchase land or establish cooperatives.
What is the Farm Security Administration?
500
Quickly created as many jobs as possible - from construction jobs to positions in symphony orchestras.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
500
Supervised the stock market and eliminated dishonest practices.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
500
Provided affordable electricity for isolated rural areas.
What is the Rural Electrification Administration (REA)?
500
Established a minimum hourly wage and a maximum number of hours in the workweek for the entire country. Set rules for the employment of workers under 16 and banned hazardous factory work for those under 18.
What is Fair Labor Standards Act?
500
Required corporations to provide stock information and made them liable for misrepresentations.