APUSH - New Deal "Alphabet Agencies"

1933. Relief. Authorized the government to examine the finances of banks closed during the bank holiday and reopen those judged to be sound.

1933. Relief. Employed young men on projects on federal lands and paid their small monetary monthly sums.

1933. Relief. Offered outright grants of federal money to states and local governments that were operating soup kitchens and other forms of relief for the jobless and homeless.

1933. Recovery. Encouraged farmers to reduce production (and thereby boost prices) by offering to pay government subsidies for every acre they plowed under.

1933. Relief. Hired thousands of people in one of the nation's poorest regions, the Tennessee Valley, to build dams, operate electric power plants, control flooding and erosion, and manufacture fertilizer. Also sold electricity to residents of the region at rates lower than those charged previously by a private power company.

1933. Recovery. Provided refinancing of small homes to prevent foreclosures.

1935. Recovery. Supervised fair trade codes and guaranteed laborers a right to collective bargaining

1933. Relief. Allotted money to state and local governments for building roads, bridges, dams, and other public works. These construction projects were a source of thousands of jobs.

1933. Reform. Guaranteed individual bank deposits.

1933. Relief. Hired laborers for temporary construction projects sponsored by the federal government.

1934. Recovery. Gave both the building industry and homeowners a boost by insuring bank loans for building, repairing, and purchasing houses. It provided many families their first chance to buy a home. Used "Redlining" to limit this program from areas where African Americans lived.

1933. Reform. Regulated the stock market and placed strict limits on the kind of speculative practices that had led to the Wall Street crash in 1929. They also required full audits of, and financial disclosure by, corporations to protect investors from fraud and insider trading.

1935. Recovery. Provided loans to sharecroppers, tenants, and small farmers. It also established federal camps where migrant workers could find decent housing.

1935. Recovery. Spent billions of dollars to provide people with jobs. Most of the workers were put to work constructing new bridges, roads, airports, and public buildings. Unemployed artists, writers, actors, and photographers were paid to paint murals, write histories, and perform in plays.

1935. Reform. 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

Empowered to enforce the law and make sure that workers' rights were protected.

1935. Reform. Created a federal insurance program based upon the automatic collection of payments from employees and employers throughout people's working careers. This trust fund would then be used to make monthly payments to retired persons over the age of 65, the disabled, and dependent children/mothers.

1935. Recovery. Taught the plains farmers who remained on their land to rotate crops, terrace fields, use contour plowing, and plant trees to stop soil erosion and conserve water.

1938. Reform. Established several regulations on businesses in interstate commerce: • A minimum wage, initially fixed at 40 cents an hour • A maximum standard workweek of 40 hours, with extra pay ("time- and-a-half ") for overtime • Child labor restrictions on hiring people under 16 years old

1933. Reform/Relief. An attempt to guarantee reasonable profits for business and fair wages and hours for labor. Helped each industry set codes for wages, hours of work, levels of production, and prices of finished goods. Gave workers the right to organize and bargain collectively.

1934. Reform. Combined and organized federal regulation of telephone, telegraph, and radio communications. This was created to oversee and regulate these industries.