FDR Alphabetical Agencies
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Created by:
tim_franzen on April 11, 2011
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ap us, fdr, alphabetical agencies
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Description and whether or not it is constitutional
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 FDIC | a federally sponsored corporation that insures accounts up to $250,000 in national banks and other qualified institutions. It still exists. |
| SEC | an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors. It is a watchdog agency that does not regulate prices. It still exists. |
| TVA | The Tennessee Valley Authority federation was created in 1933 in order to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression. It still exists |
| CCC | Civilian Conservation Corps (1933)- Relief- Young men between the ages of 18 and 25 volunteered to be placed in camps to work on regional environmental projects, mainly west of the Mississippi; they received $30 a month, of which $25 was sent home; disbanded during World War II. |
| AAA | Agricultural Adjustment Administration: attempted to regulate agricultural production through farm subsidies; ruled unconstitutional in 1936; disbanded after World War II. While the agency doesn't exist today, we still do subsidize farmers. |
| NRA | National Recovery Administration: established and administered a system of industrial codes to control production, prices, labor relations, and trade practices. Unanimously ruled unconstitutional in 1935, because it infringed on the separation of powers under the Constitution. |
| FHA | the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages |
| FLSA | (Fair Labor Standards Act) Act that set the normal work week at 40 hours, establish a national minimum wage, and outlawed child labor, |
| 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. |
| NLRA | National Labor Relations Act; outlawed company unions and other unfair labor practices in order to insure collective bargaining for unions. |
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