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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
Formed to regulate the prices and commodities of crops in America as a result of overproduction. -
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a new agency formed under the new deal that gave young men jobs to work in forests. They would live there and be payed weekly, and would send the majority of their pay back home. From this agency came many parks and national forests. -
Federal Emergency Relief
$500 million given directly to the people through public services. -
Tennessee Valley Authority act
Created to maintain and operate the Wilson Dam, navigates floods, created 5 dams in its time -
National Industrial Recovery act
Recognized state of public emergency, authorizing the President to interfere with the economy to stimulate it. -
Taylor Grazing Act
President Roosevelt signs the Taylor Grazing Act into law, ending open grazing on public rangelands and establishing the Division of Grazing (later US Grazing Service) in the Department of Interior to regulate entry and practices on 80 million acres of previously unreserved federal lands -
Works Progress Administration
Created jobs and agencies for the youth and minorities. -
National Labor Relations act
Enables workers to bargain and negotiate with employers. -
Social Security Act
Designed to relieve elderly poverty rates by saving part of people's paycheck to be payed back to them when they are retired -
Election of 1936
Democrats became the working party class and gained. African American voters to the party