| program legislation |
date |
pupose |
| agricultural adjustment administration (AAA) |
1933 |
reduced production of crops to raise farm prices delared unconstitutional in1936 |
| National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
1933 |
reduced destruuctive competition and helped workers by setting minmum wages and maximum weekly hours. declared unconstitutional in 1935 |
| Tennessee (TVA) |
1933 |
Built dams on the tennessee river to control flooding and generate elesctricity |
| Public works administration (PWA) |
1933 |
put people to work building roads buildings and other public works projects |
| federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC) |
1933 |
insured individual savings accounts so that people did not lose their money if banks failed or closed their doors |
| Federal emergency relief administration (FERA) |
1933 |
Provided feferal funds for stat and community relief efforts |
| civil works administration (CWA) |
1933 |
provided temporary federal jovs for the unemployed |
| Civilian conservation corps (CCC) |
1933 |
provided jobs for young single men building forest trails and roads planting trees to reforest the land and control flooding and building parks |
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