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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
An agency set to increase agricultural and overall economic profit by decreasing the surplus of farming products. The government had paid farmers to not produce food. First New Deal. Reform Effort. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA was a regional development program. It brought navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley. The TVA also modernized the region. First New Deal. Reform Effort. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
This insured private bank deposits. The agency set out to regain the trust of Americans after more than one-third of all banks had failed the year prior. The FDIC insured up to $250,000 per bank account. First New Deal. Recover. -
Glass-Steagall Act
The GSA regulated investment banking. It separated commercial banking from investment banking. First New Deal. Recover. -
National Recovery Administration
Franklin Roosevelt wanted to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. The NRA was set to expire two years later. First New Deal. Reform Effort. -
Public Works Act
The PSA created jobs based on large-scale public projects. It provided jobs, stabilized purchasing power, and helped revive the economy. First New Deal. Relief. -
Civil Works Administration
A job creation program that established millions of jobs for unemployed workers. The agency provided over 4 million jobs and focused on work like building bridges, buildings, and other construction like objects. First New Deal. Relief. -
National Labor Relations Act
The NRLA protects the rights of employees and employers. It encouraged collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices, which can harm the general welfare of workers, businesses and the U.S. economy. Second New Deal. Reform Effort. -
Works Progress Administration
The WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people to carry out public works projects, ranging from construction to art to youth. Second New Deal. Recover. -
National Youth Administration
The NYA was an agency that focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25. It was a source of part-time employment for high schoolers and college students. Second New Deal. Relief. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. Second New Deal. Relief. -
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
The purpose of the agency was to divert agricultural commodities from the open market, where prices were depressed by surplus farm products, to destitute families. It provided food for the poor. Second New Deal. Recover. -
Rural Electrification Act
The Rural Electrification and Telephone Service Act of 1936 provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States. Overall, it provided public utilities for rural areas. Second New Deal. Relief. -
Farm Security Administration
The FSA stressed rural rehabilitation efforts to improve the lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming. It provided poor farmers with an education and economic support for poor farmers. Second New Deal. Relief. -
Fair Labor Stands Act
FLSA is a regulation that established a 40-hour work week and minimum wage. It also prohibited most employment of underage workers. Second New Deal. Reform Effort.
