great depression acts and programs

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Across
  1. 1. signed up skilled and unskilled workers in both steel and automobile industries
  2. 3. Replaced the Resettlement Administration; loaned more $1 billion to help tenant farmers become landowners
  3. 11. Provided federal loans for low income public housing
  4. 16. created a social security administration; provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and aided people with disabilities
  5. 28. funded with $500 million to provide direct relief to the needy; half the money was given to states as direct grants-in-aid to help furnish food and clothing to the unemployed, the aged, and to the ill;The rest was distributed to states to support work relief programs
  6. 29. Provided government loans to homeowners who faced foreclosure due to failure to pay loan payments
  7. 30. Spent $11 billion to give jobs to more than 8 million workers, most unskilled; workers built 850 airports throughout the country, constructed or repaired 651,000 miles of roads and streets, and put up more than 125,000 Public buildings;employed many professionals who wrote, painted, and performed across the nation
  8. 31. Established the FDIC; Required banks to act cautiously with their customers' money
  9. 32. furnishes loans for home mortgages and repairs; still in effect today
  10. 33. set prices of many products and established standards; promote recovery by interrupting the trend of wage cuts, falling prices and layoffs
Down
  1. 2. Provided federal insurance for individual bank accounts of up to $5000
  2. 4. reestablished NIRA; prohibited unfair labor practices such as threatening workers, firing union members and interfering with union organizing; set up the NLRB; allowed the government to protect the right of workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining with employers
  3. 5. paid farmers for cutting production of soil depleting crops; rewarded farmers for practicing good soil conservation Methods
  4. 6. 1934; created the FHA
  5. 7. 1935; Created a seven-member board to regulate the nation's money supply and interest rates on loans
  6. 8. Provided monetary loans to small farmers to buy land
  7. 9. Authorized $2 billion for emergency financing for banks, life insurance companies, railroads, and other large businesses
  8. 10. Provided affordable electricity for isolated rural areas
  9. 12. monitors the stock market; enforces law regarding the sale of stocks and bonds; still there today
  10. 13. Created the PWA
  11. 14. sought to raise crop prices by lowering production; The government achieved this goal by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded
  12. 15. Banks were inspected by Treasury Department and those that were stable could reopen
  13. 17. required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings; mde corporations liable for any misrepresentations
  14. 18. put young men(18-25) to work; members built roads, developed parks, planted trees, helped in soil-erosion and flood control projects
  15. 19. provided money to states to create jobs chiefly in the construction of schools and community buildings
  16. 20. Required manufacturers to list ingredients in foods, drugs, and cosmetic products
  17. 21. Lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance their farm loans and avoid foreclosure
  18. 22. set maximum work hours to 44 hours per week, decreasing to 40 hours after 2 years; set minimum wages at 25 cents an hour; set rules for the employment of workers under 16; banned hazardous work for those under 18
  19. 23. Set up to hear testimony about unfair practices and to hold elections to find out if the workers wanted union representation
  20. 24. created to provide education, jobs, counseling, and recreation for young people; provided student aid; provided part time jobs to unemployed youths
  21. 25. Provided 4 million immediate jobs; built 40,000 schools and paid the salaries of more than 50,000 schoolteachers in rural areas
  22. 26. renovated 5 dams and built 20; created thousands of jobs and provided flood control
  23. 27. Designed to protect American farmers and manufacturers for foreign competition; Caused world trade to fall 40 percent