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26 Cards in this Set
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Emergency Banking Relief Act
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Gave FDR the power to regulate banking transactions, foriegn exchange, and to reopen solvent banks
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Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
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Provided for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation which insured individuals up to $5,000, this ended the epidemic of bank failures
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Provided employment for young men in governemnt camps in which they did fire fighting, reforestation, flood control, and swamp drainage
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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Made millions of dollars available to help farmers meet their mortgages
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Home Owners' Loan Corporation
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Bailed out mortgage holding banks, and relieved middle-class homeowners bolting their loyalty to the Democratic party
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Civil Works Administration
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Branch of the FERA, created by FDR, provided temporary jobs during the winter
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Works Progress Administration
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Employment was provided working on bridges roads, buildings, part time jobs were given to high school and college students and unemployed artists, musicians, writers, and actors
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National Recovery Administration
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Individual industries were to set up codes of fair competition, minium wages and maximum hours were established, workers had the right to organize and bargain collectivly through representation of their choosing
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Public Works Administration
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Intended for industrial recovery and unemployment relief, projects included public buildings, highways, parkways, and the Grand Coulee Dam
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The Agricultural Administration
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Was to establish parity prices for basic commodities, paid farmers to reduce their crop acreage, was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
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The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
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Paid farmers to plant soil conserving crops such as soybeans
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The Second Agricultural Adjustment Act
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If growers observed acreage restrictions on special commodities such as wheat or cotton, they would be eligible for parity payments
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The Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankrupcy Act
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Made possible the suspension of mortgage foreclosures for 5 years, was voided by the Supreme Court
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Resettlement Administration
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Had the task of removing near farm-less farmers to better land
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Truth in Securities Act
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Required promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information about the soundness of their stocks or bonds
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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Still around today, Stock markets were to act as trading marts and less as gambling casinos
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The Public Utility Holding Company Act
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Delivered a death sentance to bloated growth except where it was deemed needful
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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Provided full employment, cheap electric power, low cost housing, abundant cheap nitrates, the reforestation of eroded soil, improved navigation, and flood control
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Federal Housing Administration
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The building industry was to be stimulated by small loans to householders for improving their dwellings and for completing new ones
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United States Housing Authority
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Designed to lend money to states or communities for low-cost construction, opposition came from real estate promoters, builders and landlords
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Social Security Act
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Provided for federal-state insurance for the unemployed, physically handicapped, and delinquent children, these regular payments were financed by a payroll tax on both employers and employees
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Wagner Act
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Created the National Labor Relations Board, reasserted the right of labor to engage in self-organization and to bargain collectively through representatives of its own choosing
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Committee for Industrial Organization
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Bargaining agency for employees
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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Industries involved in interstate commerce were to set up minimum wages and maximum hour levels, labor of children under 16 was forbidden, opposed by industrialists
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Reorganization Act
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Gave FDR limited powers for administrative reforms
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Hatch Act
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Barred federal administrative officials from active political campaigning and soliciting, forbade the use of government funds for political purposes as well as the collection of campaign contributions from people receiving relief payments
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