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Agricultural Adjustment Act (1st)
Intent of the AAA was to restore the purchasing power of american farmers to what they were before WW1 https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1639.html -
Emergency Banking Relief Act (1st)
Gave authority to develop a program of rehabilitation of banking facilities. Allowed the Federal Reserve Banks to issue additional currency. https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/emergency_banking_act_of_1933 -
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (1st)
Created to provide aid to the states who then divided the funds through local agencies such as home relief bureaus and departments of welfare for poor. https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1598.html -
Public Works Administration (1st)
Budgeted money to be spent on the construction of publc works in order to help provide employment, stabilize purchasing power, improve public welfare and contributed to a revival of American industry. https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/pwa.cfm -
National Industrial Recovery Act (1st)
Designed to promote recovery and reform, encourage collective bargaining for unions, set up maximum work hours and minimum wages, and forbid child labor in industry. https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1663.html -
Civil Works Administration (2nd)
Goal was to provide a short-term solution to get people back to work. The projects were short-term and aimed towards unskilled laborers. https://dp.la/exhibitions/new-deal/relief-programs/civil-works-administration -
National Housing Act (2nd)
Created to make home mortgages easier to acquire and to reduce the foreclosure of family home mortgages by banks and mortgage lending companies. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/National-Housing-Act-of-1934.html -
Social Security Act (2nd)
An act to provide for the general welfare by creating a system of benefits and enabled States to make more provisions for aged, blind and dependent persons, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of unemployment compensation laws. https://www.ssa.gov/history/35act.html -
Soil Conservation Act (2nd)
Established the Soil Conservation Service to fight soil erosion and preserve national resources, control floods, prevent impairment of reservoirs, protect public health, public land and relieve umenployment. https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/Soil-Conservation-in-the-New-Deal-Congress/ -
Fair Labor Standards Act (2nd)
Banned oppressive child labor and set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents and the maximum workweek at 44 hours. https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/flsa1938
