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New Deal Reforms

PART A

: Directions: Using your textbook complete the chart by identifying the major purpose of the New Deal agencies

created by Congress. Then categorize the program as relief, recovery, or reform. In other words, did the measure bring

immediate assistance to those in dire need, help to restore the economy to health, or aim to prevent a similar disastrous

depression in the future?

Relief,

Date

Recovery,

New Deal Program

Created

Purpose

Reform?

Backed up bank holiday to determine solvency; fed

Relief &

gov’t examined the finances of banks, reopened those

Emergency Banking

3/9/1933

Recover

judged to be sound

Relief Act

Employed young men to plant trees, construct dams, etc.

Relief

to provide jobs and experience for young people

Civilian Conservation

3/31/1933

Corps (CCC)

Game immediate aid to starving; gave federal money to

Relief

states and local gov’ts that were operating soup kitchens

Federal Emergency

5/12/1933

and other forms of relief

Relief Administration

(FERA)

Aimed at raising farm prices by reducing acreage and

Recovery

paying subsidies for lost acres; declared unconstitutional

Agricultural Adjustment

5/12/1933

in 1935

Act (AAA)

Build dams to generate electricity in TVR; also

Recovery

provided flood control and economic development to

Tennessee Valley

5/18/1933

the region

Authority (TVA)

Planned industry standards to put people back to work at

Recovery

decent jobs and under decent conditions; declared

National Industrial

6/16/1933

unconstitutional

Recovery Act (NIRA)

Building bridges, dams, highways, and power plants

Relief

Public Works

6/16/1933

Administration (PWA)

Created FDIC to guarantee bank deposits

Reform

Glass-Steagall Banking

6/16/1933

Reform Act

Building roads, parks, schools, airports, fix

Relief

neighborhoods

Civil Works

11/9/1933

Administration (CWA)

Regulated stock exchanges and placed limits on

Reform

speculation

Securities and Exchange

6/6/1934

Commission (SEC)

Sponsored artists, scholars, photographers, writers;

Relief

largest federal employment program (3.4 million) from

Works Progress

5/6/1935

road building to art

Administration (WPA)

Regulated & protected unions & collective bargaining;

Reform

created NLRB; union membership increased from less

Wagner Act (NLRB)

7/5/1935

than 3 million in early 30s to over 10 million by 1941

Unemployment insurance, retirement benefits &

Reform

disability payments

Social Security Act

7/5/1935

Set maximum hours and minimum wages; prohibited

Reform

most child labor; min. wage=$.40/hr; max

Fair Labor Standards

6/25/1938

workweek=40 hrs and time and half for overtime;

Act (FLSA)

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