Question: Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Answer: United States federal law which restricted agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land and to kill off excess livestock.

Question: Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Answer: rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers; was a project created under FERA. Eventually changed to WPA, as there was criticism concerning no “permanent effect” of the jobs created.

Question: Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Answer: Helps to resettle the dust bowl workers; is an effort to help relieve rural poverty. Created under FERA.

Question: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Answer: provides deposit insurance guaranteeing the safety of a depositor’s accounts in member banks

Question: Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

Answer: Eventually replaced by the WPA, this was to provide work relief programs. Creates the CCC, CWA, FSA.

Question: Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

Answer: It insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying. Tries to improve housing standards and conditions, provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans, and to stabilize the mortgage market.

Question: Indian Reorganization Act (IRA)

Answer: reversal of the Dawes Act’s privatization of communal holdings of American Indian tribes and a return to local self-government on a tribal basis.

Question: Wagner Act/National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

Answer: allowed workers to organize labor unions, collective bargain, and to take action such as striking legally

Question: National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Answer: eliminate “cut-throat competition” by bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of “fair practices” and set prices. Set minimum wage & max hours.

Question: National Youth Administration (NYA)

Answer: Part of WPA, this focused on providing work and education for Americans between the ages of 16 and 25.