These go over FDR's New Deal which will help on the middle school (0089) essays.
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| 123343042 | 3 R's | Relief, Recovery, Reform: Give relief to unemployed and those about to lose homes & farms; Recovery efforts to agriculture, business and the country & reform to help avoid the 13,000,000 unemployed Americans and the closing of all banks again. | |
| 123343043 | TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority (1933)- Relief, Recovery, Reform- An attempt at regional planning. Included provisions for environment and recreational design; architectural, educational, and health projects; and controversial public power projects; continues today to meet the Tennessee Valley's energy and flood-control needs. | |
| 123343044 | SSA | Social Security Act: Relief passed in 1935 to provide Americans with retirement benefits. Mandated unemployment and disability insurance. Workers and employers pay into this fund. | |
| 123343045 | Emergency Banking Act | A government legislation passed during the depression that dealt with the bank problem. The act allowed a plan which would close down insolvent banks and reorganize and reopen those banks strong enough to survive. | |
| 123343046 | Economy Act | Proposed to balance federal budget through cutting government employee salaries and reducing veteran pensions by up to 15% to assure the public the federal government was indeed concerned of their plight in the Depression. | |
| 123343047 | Beer-Wine Revenue Act | Legalized light alcohol no more than 3.5% concentration by weight, and put a $5 tax on each barrel. Many "drys" were upset; all alcohol was later legalized. | |
| 123343048 | Civilian Conservation Corp | CCC 1933, hired single men between the ages of 18 and 25 for restoration of national parks and the building of parks | |
| 123343049 | Fair Labor Standards | Set minimum wage and maximum basic hours of 40 per week and for workers engaged in interstate commerce, outlawed the use of child labor. | |
| 123343050 | National Labor Relations Act | A 1935 law, also known as the Wagner Act, that guarantees workers the right of collective bargaining sets down rules to protect unions and organizers, and created the National Labor Relations Board to regulate labor-managment relations. | |
| 123343051 | WPA | Work Progress Administration: Massive work relief program funded projects ranging from construction to acting; disbanded by FDR during WWII | |
| 123343052 | NRA | National Recovery Administration: established and adminstered a system of industrial codes to control production, prices, labor relations, and trade practices | |
| 123343053 | Agriculture Adjustment Act | payments to farmers who agreed not to grow wheat, corn, tobacco, and other crops so farm prices went up and farmers better off | |
| 123343054 | Federal Emergency Relief Act | The Act was the first direct-relief operation under the New Deal, and was headed by Harry L. Hopkins, a New York social worker who was one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's most influential advisers *, law provided money for food and other necessities for the unemployed *Affected the people in trying to aid people feeling the effects of the depression, still in effect today | |
| 123346478 | FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A federal guarantee of savings bank deposits initially of up to $2500, raised to $5000 in 1934, and frequently thereafter; continues today with a limit of $100,000 | |
| 123346479 | CWA | Civil Works Adminstration: emergency work relief program, put more than four million people to work during the winter of 1933-34 | |
| 123346480 | HOLC | (Home Owners' Loan Corporation) Relief and Recovery. Helped home-owners and mortgage companies. government payed companies for the home-owners so they could keep their homes and pay off w/ lower interest and longer time. | |
| 123346481 | Farm Credit Administration | provided low-interest farm loans and mortgages to prevent forclosures on the property of indebted farmers | |
| 123346482 | FERA | Federal Emergency Relief Administration: combined cash relief to needy families with work relief | |
| 123346483 | PWA | Public Works Administration. Part of Roosevelts New Deal programs. Put people to work building or improving public buildings like schools, post offices,etc. | |
| 123346484 | FHA | Federal Housing Administration: expanded private home ownership among moderate-income families through federal guarantees of private mortgages, the reduction of down payments (from 30 to 10 percent), and the extension of payment form 20 to 30 years |
