 | Term | Definition |
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NRA |
National Recovery Administration; attempt to achieve economic advance through planning and cooperation among government, business, and labor; set realistic limits on production, allocate percentages to individual producers, and set firm guidelines for prices; Recovery |
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AAA |
Agricultural Adjustment Administration; allocate acreage among individual farmers, encouraging them to take land out of production by paying them subsidies; Recovery |
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FSA |
Farm Security Administration; loan money to tenants and sharecroppers so they could acquire land of their own; Recovery |
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CCC |
Civilian Conservation Crops; enrolled youth from city familes on relief and sent them to the nation's parks and recreational areas to build trails and improve public facilities; Relief |
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PWA |
Public Works Administration; headed by the Interior Harold Ickes; helped the jobless find jobs to earn enough to purchase consumer goods and thus stimulate the entire economy; Relief |
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CWA |
Civil Works Administration; Harry Hopkins was in charge; helped get people of the unemployment lines and relief rolls an dback to work; Relief |
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WPA |
Works Progress Administration; spend nearly five billion dollars for emergency relief; under Hopkins; Relief |
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NYA |
National Youth Administration; found parttime jobs for young people still in school and developed projects for 2.5 million young adults; Relief |
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REA |
Rural Electrification Administration; helped bring electricity to the 90 percent of American farms; Reform |
