The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created by this act regulating banking practices in 1933.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
100
This Act gave businesses, laborers and the government the ability to develop codes of fair practice. Setting prices, minimum wages, and working hours.
What is the National Recovery Act?
100
This alphabet agency employed young men 18-25 to fight forest fires, plant trees, and building reservoirs.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
100
This recovery program that put many farmers out of work and tenant farmers homeless was declared unconstitutional.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
100
Term for the time period of March 9 to June 16 1933 where 15 pieces of legislation were passed.
What is the Hundred Days?
200
This Act established a payroll tax that would provide benefits at age 65 to retired workers. It also provided assistance to the disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
200
This agriculture related Act paid farmers to take land out of production and not grow certain crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
200
This alphabet agency began work in 1933 in the Tennessee Valley building dams and public power plants. It still exists today as the largest public power provider.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
200
This former Louisiana Governor was a harsh critic of FDR and his Social Security Act.
Who is Huey Long?
200
Term for the closing of almost all banks to prevent bank runs.
What is a bank holiday?
300
Created by the Securities Exchange Act to regulate the stock market.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
300
This Administration assisted people in purchasing homes and making funds available for loans. It still exists today as part of HUD.
What is the Federal Housing Administration?
300
This alphabet agency put many Americans back to work building public buildings, highways, and dams in 1933.
What is the Public Works Administration?
300
This recovery program was declared unconstitutional in 1935 when challenged in court by business owners.
What is the National Recovery Administration?
300
Term for the government borrowing money to spend instead of raising taxes.
What is deficit spending?
400
The National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) of 1935 guaranteed workers the right to these two things.
What are unionization and collective bargaining?
400
This Corporation bought the mortgages of struggling homeowners and restructured them to more manageable terms.
What is the Home Owners Loan Corporation?
400
This relief program from 1935-1941 employed 8.5 million workers building roadways, airports, artists, musicians, and theatre people.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
400
One reason why the economy went back into a recession in 1937.
What is Cut Spending, Raised Interest Rates, Cut WPA and PWA?
400
Theory that the government should spend heavily in a recession in order to stimulate the economy.
What is Keynesian Economics?
500
This Act abolished child labor, set a 44 hour workweek and established a $.25/hr minimum wage in 1938.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
500
Many African Americans and tenant farmers were displaced due to this Administration.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
500
This relief administration provided money to state and local agencies to fund relief projects.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?
500
This "scandal" involved FDR trying to bypass the checks and balances system.
What is the Court Packing Scandal?
500
Series of radio talks given by FDR to address the nation and calm fears.