Apush New Deal

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emergency banking relief act –

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set up the banking holiday

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Glass Stegall banking reform act

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– set up the FDIC (insured people’s money in the bank)

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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– hired young men to work in the forest, a government project to create jobs for the unemployed

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Federal Relief Administration (FERA)

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– sought relief in the form of government handouts

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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) –

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created “artificial scarcity” paid farmers to reduce crop supply

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Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)

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– refinanced peoples homes at low interest rates

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Civil Works Administration (CWA) –

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provided unemployed with seasonal jobs to help them through a season (winter)

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Works Progress Administration (WPA) –

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An $11 million project to build public facilities (bridges, roads, etc.). created over 9 million jobs

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# Frances Perkins

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- was the first female cabinet member as Sec. of Labor.

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# Mary McLeod Bethune

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- was in charge of the Office of Minority Affairs. She was the highest ranking black in FDR's administration. She later held found a college in Daytona, FL.

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# Ruth Benedict -

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an anthropologist, studied cultures as personalities in Patterns of Cultures

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National Recovery Administration –

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very complex, set up maximum work hours, minimum wages, labor unions were given the right to bargain collectively and organize

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Public Works Administration –

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sought to build public works and infrastructure. Headed by Harold Ickes

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Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act –

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Paid farmers to plant soil conserving crops such as soybeans.

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Federal Securities Act –

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Required companies to report honest financial numbers

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Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) –

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stock watchdog

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) –

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built dams along the Tennessee river to provide electricity and create jobs, help economy.

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Federal Housing Authority –

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offered low interest home loans to people

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Social Security Act –

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gave money (funded by taxes) to elderly, disabled, blind, and other dependents

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Wagner Act

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– replaced the NRA, it guaranteed the right of unions to organize and collectively bargain with management.

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Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)

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– headed by John Lewis, it was essentially a labor union for unskilled workers

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Fair Labor Standards Act –

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set minimum wage, maximum working hours, and forbade children under 16 from working.

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Hatch Act –

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banned federal officials from political soliciting and campaigning