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- 1. Established May 12 1933, directed by Harry Hopkins, offered grants of federal money to states and local governments that were operating relief programs (Soup Kitchens for example) for the jobless and homeless.
- 4. Established May 6 1935, spent billions of dollars between 1935 and 1940 to provide people with jobs. After a year of operation under Hopkins it had employed 3.4 million men and women.
- 10. Established June 13 1933, provided refinancing of small homes to prevent foreclosures.
- 13. Established August 14 1935, created a federal insurance program based upon the automatic collection of taxes from employees and employers throughout people's working careers. The trust fund would then be used to make monthly payments to retired persons over the age of 65, also gave benefits to workers who lost their jobs, disabled, and dependent children and their mothers.
- 15. Established May 18 1933, experiments in regional development that hired thousands of people in one of the nation's poorest regions to build dams, operate electric power, control flooding, etc. Ended up selling electricity to residents of the region at rates lower than the previous private power company.
- 16. Established March 31 1933, employed young men on projects on the federal lands and paid their families small monthly sums.
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- 2. Established June 16 1933, directed by Hugh Johnson, attempted to guarantee reasonable profits for business and fair wages and hours for labor. Also gave workers the right to organize and bargain collectively. Ended up being declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
- 3. Established May 12 1933, encouraged farmers to reduce production by offering to pay government subsidies for every acre they plowed under. Declared unconstitutional in 1935 by the Supreme Court.
- 5. Established June 16 1933, guaranteed individual bank deposits up to $5,000.
- 6. Established June 6 1934, created to regulate the stock market and to place strict limits on the practices of speculation that led to the crash in 1929.
- 7. Established June 25 1938, established minimum wage, payed overtime, recordkeeping, and child labor standards.
- 8. Established March 27 1933, provided low-interest farm loans and mortgages to prevent foreclosures on the properties of indebted farmers.
- 9. Established May 20 1936, Provided loans for electrical cooperatives to supply power in rural areas.
- 11. Established June 16 1933, directed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, allotted money to state and local governments for different kinds of public works and infrastructure construction, provided thousands of jobs.
- 12. Established July 6 1935, replaced the labor provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act and guaranteed a worker's right to join a union and a union's right to bargain collectively. It also outlawed business practices that were unfair to labor.
- 14. Established March 9 1933, authorized the government to examine the finances of banks closed during the bank holiday before reopening the banks deemed stable.