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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 13. The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 created the NRA to promote economic recovery by ending wage and price deflation and restoring competition.
- 14. Created under the Emergency Relief Act of 1935, the NYA provided more than 4.5 million jobs for young people.
- 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.
- 16. The REA (1935) gave low-cost loans to farm cooperatives to bring power into their communities.
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- 1. The FSA was created in 1937to aid sharecroppers.
- 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. The FHA was created in 1934 to stimulate the building industry by providing small loans for home construction.
- 6. Created in 1933, FERA supported nearly five million households each month and funded thousands of work projects for the unemployed.
- 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.
- 8. Established by the NIRA in 1933, the PWA was intended both for industrial recovery and unemployment relief.
- 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