New Deal
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24 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Glass-Steagall Act | Created federally insured bank deposits to prevent back failures. |
| National Industrial recovery Act | Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers. |
| Social Security Act | Response to critics, it provided pension, umemployment insurance, and aid to blind deaf, disabled and dependent children. |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | provided jobs for single males on conservation projects. |
| Federal Emergency Relief Administration | Helped states to provide aid for umemployment |
| Public Works administration | created jobs on government projects |
| Civil Works Administration | Provided work in federal jobs |
| Works progress administration | quickly created as many jobs as possible |
| National Youth Administration | provided job training for unemployed young people and part0time jobs for needy students |
| Emergency Banking Relief act | banks were inspected by treasury department and those stable could reopen |
| Federal Deposit Insurance corporation | protected naks deposits up to $5,000 |
| National recovery administration | established codes of fair competition |
| Securities and exchanged commission | supervised the stock martket and eliminated dishonest practices |
| banking act of 1935 | created seven member board to regular the nations money supply and the interest rates on loans |
| Food, drug and cosmetics | required manufactures to list ingredients in food, drugs and cosmetic products |
| Agricultural adjustment administration | aided farmers and regulated crop production |
| Tennessee Vally Authority | Developed the resources for the tennessee valley |
| Rural Electrification Administration | provided affordable eletrecity for isolated rural areas |
| Home Owners Loan Corporation | Loaned money at low interest to home owners who could not meet mortgage payments |
| Federal Housing administration | insurded loans for building and repairing homes |
| United States housing authority | provided federal loans for low cost public housing |
| Wagner Act | Defined unfair labor practices and established the national labor relations board to settle disputes between employers and employees |
| Fair labor standards act | Established a minimum hourly wage and maximum number of hours in the workweek for the entire country. Set rules for the employment of workers under 16 and banned hazardous factory work for those under 18 |
| Social security administration | provided pension for retired worker and their spouses and aided people with disablities |
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