Alphabet Soup: The Programs of the New Deal

Paid farmers not to grow certain crops. The purpoe was to reduce supply and thereby raise farm prices. This agency also promoted social conservation. (1933)

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Federal Depost Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

Enforce Codes that regulate wages, prices, and working conditions. Helped devise standards for production, prices, and wages. (1933)

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• Security Exchange Comission (SEC)

• National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

• National Recovery Act (NRA)

Gave Relief to the Unemployed and the needy. Provided federal money for relief project to the roughly 13 million unemployed (1933)

• Agriculutre Adjustment Act (AAA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Federal Emergency Relief Administrative (FERA)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)

Built Dams to provide cheap electric power and flood control to seven southern states; set up schools and health centers.

• Tennesse valley Authority (TVA)

• National Recover Administration (NRA)

• Securtiy Exchange Comission (SEC)

• National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

Insured savings accounts in banks approved by the government. Protected the money of depositors in insured banks (1933)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

• Civial Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)

Provided Jobs for young men to plant trees, build bridges, dams and park, set up flood-control projects, and work on other conservation projects. (1933)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• National Youth Administration (NYA)

• Social Security Act (SSA)

• Work Progress Administration (WPA)

Established large-scale national works program to create jobs. Employed men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, and airport; gave work to artists, writers, and musicians (1935)

• Work Progress Administration (WPA)

• Fairl albor Standards Act (FLSA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)

Set up job programs for young people and helped them continue their education. (1935)

• Work Progress Administration (WPA)

• National Youth Administration (NYA)

• Fair Labor Standards (FLSA)

• Tennessee Valley Authority

Protected labor's right to form unions and set up a board to hear labor disputes. It protected workers from unfair management practices. (1935)

• National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

• National Recovery Administration (NRA)

• Fairl Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)

Provide workers with unemployment insurance and retirement benefits. Set up a system of pensions fo the elderly, dependent children, and people with disabilities. (1935)

• Social Security Act (SSA)

• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

• National Recovery Administration (NRA)

• National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)