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  1. 4. Perhaps the most ambitious undertaking of the New Deal, the TVA was a comprehensive federal agency created in 1933 for the economic development of the Tennessee River watershed.
  2. 5. Created in 1933, the CWA employed four million people--paid an average of $15 a week--many in useful construction jobs such as repairing schools, laying sewer pipes, building roads.
  3. 9. The NLRA (also called the Wagner Act) of 1935 created the National Labor Relations Board to protect the rights or organized labor to organize and collectively bargain with employers.
  4. 11. The Social Security Act of 1935 established the SSA to administer a national pension fund for retired persons, an unemployment insurance system, and public assistance programs for dependent mothers, children, and the physically disabled.
  5. 12. Created in 1933, the AAA paid farmers for not planting crops in order to reduce surpluses, increase demand for seven major farm commodities, and raise prices.
  6. 13. The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 created the NRA to promote economic recovery by ending wage and price deflation and restoring competition.
  7. 14. Created under the Emergency Relief Act of 1935, the NYA provided more than 4.5 million jobs for young people.
  8. 15. The SEC was created in 1934 to serve as a federal "watchdog" administrative agency to protect public and private investors from stock market fraud, deception and insider manipulation on Wall Street.
  9. 16. The REA (1935) gave low-cost loans to farm cooperatives to bring power into their communities.
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  1. 1. The FSA was created in 1937to aid sharecroppers.
  2. 2. Established under the $4.8 billion Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the WPA lasted until 1943 and employed at least 8.5 million people at an average of $2 a day.
  3. 3. The FHA was created in 1934 to stimulate the building industry by providing small loans for home construction.
  4. 6. Created in 1933, FERA supported nearly five million households each month and funded thousands of work projects for the unemployed.
  5. 7. To restore confidence in banks and encourage savings, Congress created the FDIC to insure bank customers against the loss of up to $5,000 their deposits if their bank should fail.
  6. 8. Established by the NIRA in 1933, the PWA was intended both for industrial recovery and unemployment relief.
  7. 10. The Indian Removal Act of 1934 (called the "Indian New Deal, reversed the forced-assimilation policies in effect since the Dawes Act of 1887. The IRA tried to stop the loss of Indian lands and encouraged Native American tribes to establish local self-government and to preserve their native crafts and traditions