New Deal Programs

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  • Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)

    Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)
    The Emergency Banking Relief Act was a bill passed during the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in reaction to the financially adverse conditions of the Great Depression and in an attempt to stablize the bank system. This act allowed the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to issue additional currency on good assets so that banks that reopened would be able to meet every legitimate call. This act is still in afect today
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

    Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal.
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

    Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
    The Tennessee Valley Authority (T.V.A.) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. To help with the Great depretion, this act provided jobs for the unimployed. this act is still in affect today.
  • Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)

    Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
    The Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) was a government-sponsored corporation created as part of the New Deal. Its purpose was to refinance home mortgages currently in default to prevent foreclosure. By doing this, less people would be homeless and there for helping with the Great Depretion. This act came to an end in 1935
  • Civil Works Administration (CWA)

    Civil Works Administration (CWA)
    was a short-lived U.S. job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter of 1933–34, which is also when the program ended.
  • Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

    Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
    The Rural Electrification Administration (REA) was one of the agencies created under in 1935 to promote rural electrification. this act helped bring electricade to homes and people in need, there for helping solve th Great Depretion. this agencie was ended in 1941.
  • Bank Act of 1935

    Bank Act of 1935
    The 1935 Banking Act made the FDIC a permanent agency of the federal government in response to the depression era closure of banks. This made sure banks were held to a surtin standered and wont cause another Great Depretion. this Act is still active today.
  • Social Security Administration

    Social Security Administration
    The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government created during the New Deal, that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits. This insurses people that they will not lose there money if the banks crash and preventiong another Great Depretion. this act is still in affexct today
  • United State Housing Authority (USHA)

    United State Housing Authority (USHA)
    The United States Housing Authority, or USHA, was a federal agency created during 1937 within the United States Department of the Interior by the Housing Act of 1937 as part of the New Deal. It was designed to lend money to the states or communities for low-cost construction. this prevented more people from going bank rupte and is still in afect today
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

    Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
    The FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments. Covered nonexempt workers are entitled to a minimum wage of not less than $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. this is still in affect today