New Deal Programs

Created federal jobs by building public projects, such as schools, roads, courts, post offices and bridges.

• Public Works Administration

• Civil Conservation Corps

• National Recovery Administration

• Agricultural Adjustments Acts

insured bank deposits so that people would not lose their savings in the event of a bank failure.

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – FDIC

• Tennessee Valley Authority- T.V.A.

• National Labor Relations Act – “Wagner Act”

• Securities and Exchange Commission

Gave workers the right to form unions and to bargain collectively.

• Social Security Act

• National Labor Relations Act – “Wagner Act”

• Tennessee Valley Authority- T.V.A.

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – FDIC

Built 21 government-owned dams along the Tennessee River, controlling floods and producing electricity.

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – FDIC

• Social Security Act

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Tennessee Valley Authority- T.V.A.

Provided works with unemployment insurance, old age pensions and insurance if they did early. Workers and their employers each paid new taxes to fund these benefits.

• Social Security Act

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – FDIC

• Agricultural Adjustments Acts – A.A.A

• National Recovery Administration- N.R.A.

Created to watch over the stock market, prevent fraud and guard against another stock market collapse.

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Civil Conservation Corps

• Public Works Administration

• Federal Emergency Relief Act

gave jobs to young men, such as planting trees and cleaning up forests. Members of the C.C.C. lived in camps and received free food. They made $5 a week and $25 was sent home to their families.

• Civil Conservation Corps

• Public Works Administration

• National Recovery Administration- N.R.A

• Securities and Exchange Commission

created jobs by hiring artists, writers, and musicians to paint murals and production plays and other artworks.

• Civil Conservation Corps

• Works Progress Administration, W.P.A

• Agricultural Adjustments Acts – A.A.A

• National Labor Relations Act – “Wagner Act”

Funded state and local government to provide emergency relief and enabled millions of people to be hired on make-work projects

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)

• Public Works Administration (PWA)

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AA)

Government paid farmers to plant less. (this was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court). It was changed so that the government could buy farm surpluses and stored them in warehouses until prices went up.

• National Recovery Act (NRA)

• Agricultural Adjustment Acts (AAA)

• National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)

• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)