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This gave the president power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks. *Relief!
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This provided relief to famers by making available millions of dollars to help farmers meet their mortgages. *Relief!
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This was Congress's first major effort to deal with the massive unemployment, and was led to by the Federal Emergency Relief Act. It granted about $3 billion to the states for direct relief payments. *Relief!
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This act requiried promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds. *Reform!
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This act allowed the Federal Reserve to regulate interest rates in savings accounts, but these and many other provisions to the act were repealed. *Reform!
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This group provided employment for about 3 million men in government camps. They did work such as reforestation, fire fighting, flood control, and swamp drainage. *Recovery!
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This act assisted many households that had trouble paying their mortgages. *Relief!
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This was a branch of the FERA that was designed to provide temporary jobs during the winter emergency. Thousands of unemployed were employed at leaf raking and other manual-labor jobs. *Relief!
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This reform program, led to by the Glass-Steagall Reform Act, insured individual bank deposits up to $5,000, ending the epidemic of bank failures. *Reform!
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It made possible a suspension of mortgage foreclosures for 5 years, but was struck down by Supreme Court. It also restricted the ability of banks to repossess farms. *Reform!
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This act encouraged Native American tribes to establish self-government and to preserve their native crafts and traditions. 77 tribes refused to organize under the law, while hundreds did organize. *Reform!
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This was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects. *Recovery!
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This act provided for federal-state unemployment insurance. To provide security for old age, specified categories of retired workers were to receive regular payments from Washington. *Relief!
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This was designed to assist industry, labor, and the unemployed. Individual industries, through "fair competition" codes, were forced to lower their work hours so that more people could be hired; a minimum wage was also established. *Recovery!
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This was intended for both industrial recovery and unemployment relief. The agency spent over $4 billion on thousands of projects, including public buildings and highways. *Recovery!
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This encouraged famers to reduce their crops. The reduction of crop acreage was now achieved by paying farmers to plant soil-conserving crops. *Reform!