FDR’s Alphabet Agencies
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933, America was in the darkest depths of the Great Depression.
But Roosevelt promised a "New Deal" -- an America free from economic deprivation -- and he kept his word,
launching major legislation in his effort to revitalize the American spirit and its fading dream. Between 1933 and
1939 dozens of federal programs, often referred to as the Alphabet Agencies, were created as part of the New Deal.
With FDR's focus on "relief, recovery and reform," the legacy of the New Deal is with us to this day.
Agency
AAA- Agricultural
Adjustment Act,
1933
CCC- Civilian
Conservation Corps,
1933
CWA- Civil Works
Administration, 1933
FCA- Farm Credit
Administration, 1933
FCC- Federal
Communications
Commission, 1934
FDIC- Federal
Deposit Insurance
Corporation, 1933
Why was it created?
What did it do?
How successful
was it?
FERA- Federal
Emergency Relief
Administration, 1933
FHA- Federal
Housing
Administration, 1934
FSA- Farm Security
Administration, 1935
HOLC- Home
Owners Loan
Corporation, 1933
NIRA- National
Industrial Recovery
Act, 1933
NLRB- National
Labor Relations
Board, 1934
NRA- National
Recovery
Administration, 1933
NYA- National
Youth
Administration, part
of WPA 1935
PWA- Public Works
Administration, 1933
RA- Resettlement
Administration, 1935
REA- Rural
Electrification
Administration
(now Rural Utilities
Service), 1935
SEC- Securities and
Exchange
Commission, 1934
SSB- Social Security
Board (now Social
Security
Administration),
1935
TVA- Tennessee
Valley Authority,
1933
USHA- United
States Housing
Authority, 1937
WPA- Works
Progress
Administration, 1935