New Deal Legislation and Programs Cheat Sheet
Emergency Banking Act: provided funds to aid financial institutions
Glass Stegall Act: barred commercial banks from buying and selling of stocks (wasn’t repealed until the
1990s)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: insured accounts of individual depositors
Section 7A: recognized workers rights to organize unions
Economy Act: reduced federal spending
Federal Emergency Administration (FERA): gave grants to local agencies that helped people affected by
Depression
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC): gave unemployed young men jobs working on projects like forest
preservation, flood control, and national parks
Public Works Administration (PWA): built roads, schools, hospitals, and other public facilities
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): built series of dams to prevent floods and deforestation, provide
cheap electric power for homes & factories
Home Owners Loan Corporation & Federal Housing Administration (FHA): insured millions of long term
mortgages issued by private banks and built thousands of low rent housing
21st Amendment: repealed prohibition
Federal Communication Corp (FCC): oversaw nation’s broadcast airwaves and telephone
communications
Security Exchange Commission (SEC): regulate the stock and bond markets
Wagner Act: Labor Magna Carta, had National Labor Relations Board Supervise elections for employees
voting for union representation at work, outlawed firing and blacklisting of union organization
New Deal Coalition: those who supported FDR. He had strong backing of organized labor, southern
whites & northern black voters, Protestant farmers & urban Catholic & Jewish ethnics, industrial workers
and middle class home owners
Popular Front: period when Communist Party sought to ally itself with socialists and New Dealers in
movements for social change urging reform of the capitalist system rather than revolution
Smith Act: made it a federal crime to “teach, advocate or encourage” the overthrow of government