How many New Deal programs can you list?

Answer 1

• The Economy Act - balanced budget
• The Emergency Banking Act
• The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• The government suspended the gold standard
• The Gold Reserve Act - the price of gold was changed from $20.67 per troy ounce to $35
• The Securities Act - required the disclosure of balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and the names and compensations of corporate officers
• The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• The repeal of Prohibition
• The Public Works Administration (PWA)
• The Resettlement Administration (RA)
• The Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
• The Works Progress Administration (WPA)
• The National Youth Administration (NYA)
• The Forest Service and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) - including school lunches, building new schools, opening roads in remote areas, reforestation, and purchase of marginal lands to enlarge national forests
• The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) - dam construction planning on an unprecedented scale to curb flooding, generate electricity, and modernize poor farms in the Tennessee Valley region of the Southern United States
• The Farmers' Relief Act - compensation to farmers who reduced output, thereby rising prices
• The Agricultural Adjustment Act created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
• The Farm Tenancy Act
• The Farm Security Administration (FSA)
• The Food Stamp Plan - provide stamps to poor people who could use them to purchase food
• The National Recovery Administration (NRA) - introduced a minimum wage and an eight-hour workday, together with abolishing child labor
• The Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) - uniform national appraisal methods and simplified the mortgage process
• The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) - national standards for home construction
• The Reciprocal Tariff Act
• The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration (PRRA)
• The Social Security Act - universal retirement pensions (Social Security), unemployment insurance, and welfare benefits for the handicapped and needy children in families without a father
• The National Labor Relations Act - guaranteed workers the rights to collective bargaining through unions
• The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
• The Fair Labor Standards Act - set maximum hours (44 per week) and minimum wages (25 cents per hour) for most workers
• The United States Housing Authority (USHA)