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Guarantees bank deposits
FDIC
Provided refinancing to prevent home foreclosures
HOLC
Provided low-interest farm loans and mortgages
FCA
Sold electricity produced from power plants at low rates
TVA
President Roosevelt's advisory committee that developed New Deal programs
Brain Trust
Employed young men that planted trees, cleared brush, and fought forest fires
CCC
Provides assistance to victims of natural disasters
FERA
Built or repaired roads, bridges, dams, sewer systems, schools, and other public works including Mount Rushmore
PWA
Similar to the PWA in that it hired laborers for construction projects
CWA
Employed artists, writers, musicians, and actors who were paid to paint murals, write stories, and perform plays
WPA
Why was the Supreme Court case Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States groundbreaking?
Decided the National Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional
Outlawed business practices that were unfair to labor
Wagner Act
Investigated unfair labor practices
NLRB
Craft (skill) union
AFL
Industrial union
CIO
Included pensions to retirees, unemployment compensation, payments to the disabled, and to dependent children and their mothers
Social Security
Allowed Roosevelt to add up to six more justices to the Court (defeated by Congress)
Court packing
Improved housing standards
National Housing Act
List two accomplishments of the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Established a minimum wage (40 cents an hour)
• Established a maximum workweek of 40 hours
• Established time and a half for overtime
• Established child-labor restrictions (16 year olds)
Name two members of teh New Deal Coalition
Labor unions, blue collar workers, minorities (racial, ethnic, and religious), farmers, white Southerners, people on relief, and intellectuals
Provided water to cities and farms in California
CCVP
Was declared unconstitutional
NIRA
What impact did the AAA have on the Great Depression?
Boosted farm goods prices
Separated commercial and investment banking institutions
Glass-Steagall Act
Established the Securities Exchange Commission
Securities Act