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Civilian Conservation Corps.
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. -
Agricultural Ajustment Act(AAA)
Protected farmers from price drops br providing crop subsides to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion. Was ruled unconstitutional and rewritten. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority (which is still used today) was used to control floods, improve navigation, improve the living standards of farmers, and produce electrical power alongs the Tennessee River and its tributaries. -
Glass-Stegall Act
Established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC) which is still in use today with all banks. Insured the depositors dseposit up to $2500($250,000 today). It helped people put more trust in the banks so they didnt go bust. -
Public Works Administration
PWAThe PWA was designed to reduce unemployment and increase purchasing power through the construction of highways and public buildings. At the beginning of 1939 the PWA was eventually liquidated. -
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The purpose of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was to restore investor confidence by ending misleading sales practice and stock maniplulations that led to the collapse of the stock market of 1929. -
Social Security Act of 1935
Respond to Critics (Dr. Townsend and Huey Long), it provided pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to blind, deaf, disabled, and dependant children. Still in use today. -
Wagner Act
The Wagner Act, officially National Labor Relations Act, was the single-most important piece of labor legislation enacted in the United States in the 20th century. Its main purpose was to establish the legal right of most workers to organize or join labor unions and to bargain collectively with their employers. And was amended in 1959.
