New Deal Programs Part I
Provided jobs for single males ages 18-25 on conservation projects to improve America's public land, forests, and parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The agency was designed to provide work, job training, and education for young men and women between the ages of 16-25.
What is the National Youth Administration (NYA)?
Free 100 points - counts as a turn.
This New Deal agency helped states provide aid for the unemployed by constructing and preparing hundreds of thousands of miles of roads and building thousands of public buildings.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)?
The EBRA was created by the Treasury Department of the United States and inspected and determined those banks that were stable enough to reopen.
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)?
This law required manufacturers to list ingredients in foods, drugs, and cosmetic products.
What is the Food and Drug Act?
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What is the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDC)?
What is the New Deal?
This program insured the bank deposits made by the American people up to $5,000.00 and was intended to protect people's savings.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
How many days was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Bank Holiday?
What was Four Days?
This program was designed to restore investor confidence in our markets by providing investors and the markets with reliable information.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
What is the Social Security Act (SSA)?
Created to cause prices to rise and halt the overproduction of certain crops and provided farmers with government subsidies.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?
Quickly created as many jobs as possible - from construction jobs to positions in symphony orchestras. This program employed millions of men who were not formally educated and planted over 24 million trees to combat poor soil erosion.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Created to refinance home mortgages to prevent foreclosure by refinancing homeowners' loans.
What is the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)?
This act of May 18, 1933, was created to oversee the construction of dams to control flooding, improve navigation, and create cheap electric power in the United States.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?