The New Deal: An Alphabet Soup of Agencies

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The New Deal: An Alphabet Soup of Agencies
Directions: When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, he promised a “New Deal” for Americans suffering through the
Depression. He helped set up hundreds of organizations to provide direct Relief (direct help for the unemployed and poor
Reform (changes so that such a crisis could not happen again), and Recovery (bringing the economy back up to normal levels).
For each agency, include the correct information in the chart below:
Initials
CCC
SEC
AAA
WPA
TVA
SSA
FDIC
HOLC
NYA
Full Name
Purpose and Information
Relief, Reform, or
Recovery
The New Deal: An Alphabet Soup of Agencies
Directions: After completing the chart of New Deal agencies on the opposite side, create your own poster or cartoon which
either supports or criticizes one of the agencies from your chart.
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Its purpose was to inspect banks and insure depositor's accounts. The government
would provide deposit insurance up to $5,000 on checking and savings accounts in the
event of a bank failure. Roosevelt now said it was safer to keep your money in a
reopened bank than under the mattress.
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
The AAA was a law that paid farmers to actually grow less crops by farming fewer
acres. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and raise the value of crops, thereby
giving farmers relative stability again. The farmers were paid subsidies by the federal
government for leaving some of their fields unused. This would increase farm prices
as common vegetables and other crops were made more scarce.
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Home Owners Loan Corporation
The HOLC loaned money at a low interest to homeowners who could not meet their
mortgage payments. It was usually used to extend loans from shorter, expensive
payments of 15 year loans to lower payments of 30 year loans. Through its work it
granted long term mortgages to over a million people facing the loss of their homes.
The HOLC stopped lending in June 1936 by the terms of the HOLC act.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
This famous organization employed thousands of young men in camps across the country improving public lands
by planting trees, clearing trails, and fighting forest fires. It was one of the most popular programs and provided
jobs in every state in America.
The Tennessee Valley Authority
It improved the economy of the Deep South by building dams and improving existing ones so that electricity could
be brought to the region. It built dams and power plants on the Tennessee River that provided flood control and a
reliable supply of water for irrigation, drinking and recreation. It covered not just Tennessee, but north to Virginia
and west to Illinois.
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National Youth Administration
Provided job training for unemployed young people and part-time jobs for needy students. Grants were given to
high school and college students in exchange for work. This allowed young people to continue studying while at the
same time preventing the pool of unemployed youth from getting any larger. Second, for those young people who
were both unemployed and not in school, the NYA aimed to combine economic relief with on-the-job training in
federally funded work projects designed to provide youth with marketable skills for the future.
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Works Progress Administration
Millions were put to work in construction projects such as schools, libraries, hospitals, roads, sewer systems, and
airports. Musicians were hired to give lessons, writers and artists and actors were hired.
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Securities & Exchange Commission
The Securities & Exchange Commission was a permanent agency set up to monitor the
stock market and ensure that no fraud or insider trading was taking place. It was
created in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929 and was designed so that such a
crash would not happen again.
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Social Security Administration
It set up a form of insurance where employers and workers would pay the tax to cover
unemployment benefits, old age pensions, programs for the blind, and for children of
workers who had died. This provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses
and helped people with disabilities.
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Name _________Key_________
The New Deal: An Alphabet Soup of Agencies
Directions: When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, he promised a “New Deal” for Americans suffering through the
Depression. He helped set up hundreds of organizations to provide direct Relief (direct help for the unemployed and poor
Reform (changes so that such a crisis could not happen again), and Recovery (bringing the economy back up to normal levels).
For each agency, include the correct information in the chart below:
Initials
Full Name
Purpose and Information
Relief, Reform, or
Recovery
CCC
Employed thousands of young men in
Civilian
camps across the country improving
Conservation Corps public lands by planting trees, clearing
trails, and fighting forest fires.
Relief
SEC
Securities and
Exchange
Commission
Set up to monitor the stock market and
ensure that no fraud or insider trading
was taking place
Reform
AAA
Agricultural
Adjustment
Association
Paid farmers not to grow crops so that
prices of crops would rise back up to
normal levels.
WPA
Works Progress
Administration
Provided jobs to young men to build
Relief
schools, hospitals, and other public works.
TVA
Tennessee Valley
Authority
Provided jobs building dams and
improving existing ones so that electricity
could be brought to the Deep South.
SSA
Social Security
Administration
Form of insurance for old age and people
Reform
with disabilities.
FDIC
Federal Deposit
Insurance
Corporation
Inspected banks and provided deposit
insurance up to $5,000 on checking and
savings accounts in the event of a bank
failure.
Loaned money at a low interest to
Home Owners Loan
homeowners who could not meet their
HOLC
Corporation
mortgage payments.
NYA
National Youth
Administration
Recovery
Relief
Reform
Relief
Provided job training for unemployed
young people and part-time jobs for needy
Recovery
students. Grants were given to high school
and college students in exchange for work.
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