Young Men left their homes and went to army camps for training.
What is Civilian Conservation Corps
100
This organization insured each bank deposit up to $5,000.
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
100
Regulates companies that sell stocks and bonds.
What is Securities and Exchange Commission
100
Promoted control and prevention of soil erosion.
What is Social Conservation Service
200
Created to distribute $500 million in relief aid to state and local agencies.
What is Federal Emergency Relief Administration
200
Stimulated industrial and business activity and reduced unemployment.
What is National Industrial Recovery Act
200
Insured bank loans for building and repairing houses
What is Federal Housing Administration
200
Recognized rights of labor to organize and bargain collectively.
What is National Labor Relations Act (Wagner- Connery Act)
300
Paid farmers to reduce their output in corn, cotton, dairy, products hogs, wheat, and other commodities.
What is Agricultural Adjustment Administration
300
One of two federal agencies. Encouraged business to draw up "codes of fair competition."
What is National Recovery Act
300
This was designed to help Americans find work. During the next 8 years they imployed 8.5 million people and 2 million were in the program at any given time.
What is Works Process Administration
300
Provided loans to help tenant farmers buy land.
What is Farm Security Administration
400
Transformed the economic and social life of the region. These projects combated malarial and soil erosion and tried to improve low standard of living Americans.
What is Tennesse Valley Authority
400
Connected with private firms to build roads, public building, and other public work projects by using federal funds.
What is Public Works Administration
400
Contained major provision- unemployment insurance to workers who lost jobs, pensions to retired workers older than age 65, and provided payments to people with disabilities, the elderly and the wives and children of men who had died.
What is Social Security Act
400
Established minimum wage of 40 cents per house and maximum workweek of 40 hours of businesses in interstate commerce.
What is Fair Labor Standards Acts
500
Loaned money to home owners to retinance mortages
What is Home Owners Loan Corporation
500
Most of these jobs were federal, state, local, "make-work" projects such as raking leaves and picking up litter. This organization helped people get jobs, but did not hand them out.
What is Civil Works Administration
500
Provided high-school and college age Americans with part time jobs that allowed to stay in school.