| Act or Program
| Acronym
| Year Enacted
| Significance |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act
| AAA
| 1933
| Protected farmers from price drops by providing crop subsidies to
reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing
soil erosion.
|
| Civil Works Administration
| CWA
| 1933
| Provided public works jobs at $15/week to four million workers in
1934.
|
| Civilian Conservation Corps
| CCC
| 1933
| Sent 250,000 young men to work camps to perform reforestation and
conservation tasks. Removed surplus of workers from cities, provided
healthy conditions for boys, provided money for families.
|
| Federal Emergency Relief Act
| FERA
| 1933
| Distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers.
|
| Glass-Steagall Act
| FDIC
| 1933
| Created federally insured bank deposits ($2500 per investor at first)
to prevent bank failures.
|
| National Industrial Recovery Act
| NIRA
| 1933
| Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and
to permit collective bargaining of workers.
|
| National Youth Administration
| NYA
| 1935
| Provided part-time employment to more than two million college and
high school students.
|
| Public Works Administration
| PWA
| 1933
| Received $3.3 billion appropriation from Congress for public works
projects.
|
| Rural Electrification Administration
| REA
| 1935
| Encouraged farmers to join cooperatives to bring electricity to farms.
Despite its efforts, by 1940 only 40% of American farms were
electrified.
|
| Securities and Exchange Commission
| SEC
| 1934
| Regulated stock market and restricted margin buying.
|
| Social Security Act
|
| 1935
| Response to critics (Dr. Townsend and Huey Long), it provided
pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to blind, deaf, disabled, and
dependent children.
|
| Tennessee Valley Authority
| TVA
| 1933
| Federal government build series of dams to prevent flooding and sell
electricity. First public competition with private power industries
|
| Wagner Act
| NLRB
| 1935
| Allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union-busting tactics by
management.
|
| Works Progress Administration
| WPA
| 1935
| Employed 8.5 million workers in construction and other jobs, but more
importantly provided work in arts, theater, and literary projects.
|
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