Alphabet Soup
The New Deal
FERA
AAA
TVA
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Elected President in 1932
 Promised the American
people a New Deal
 Called Congress into
emergency session in
March, 1933
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The New
Deal sought
relief for the
needy,
economic
recovery,
and reform
of American
capitalism.
The New Deal was a revolution in the
American way of life.
The result was “Alphabet Soup”,
new federal agencies, some
successful, some not!
Major New Deal Acts and Agencies
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CCC *
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SSA
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AAA *
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FSA
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TVA *
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NLRB
FDIC *
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SEC
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WPA
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FERA *
NRA *
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FHA
*Created in the first
hundred days
Civilian Conservation
Corps
The CCC gave twenty-five million
young men work in environmental
improvement projects.
CCC boys arrive at Idaho
Agricultural Adjustment
Act
AAA
Gave farmers money to make up for
the government’s request that they
bring fewer crops to market.
Tennessee Valley
Authority
The TVA provided funds to develop the
Tennessee River Valley and fostered rural
electrification.
Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
The FDIC was designed to protect
savings that were deposited in
private bank accounts in the event
of bank failures.
Federal Emergency
Relief Administration
The FERA provided funds for local
and state relief organizations to
disburse to the unemployed.
National Recovery
Administration
The NRA created work codes and industrial
safety regulations while attempting to set
minimum prices and wages which business
owners would not undercut.
Social Security Act
It gave benefits to the elderly, the
orphaned, and to people injured
in industrial accidents.
Farm Security
Administration
The FSA lent money to sharecroppers
and tenant farmers to help them buy
their own land.
A FSA Migrant Camp and a migrant family.
National Labor Relations
Board
The NLRB guaranteed workers the
right to join labor unions and call
strikes.
Securities and Exchange
Commission
The SEC regulated the Stock Market.
Works Progress
Administration
The WPA provided government funds for
constructing public buildings, roads, bridges,
and even hiring writers and artists.
Federal Housing
Administration
The FHA was created to stimulate
the building industry by providing
small loans for home construction.
“This is pre-eminently the time to speak
the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly.
Nor need we shrink from facing conditions in
our country today. This great nation will
endure as it has endured, will revive and will
prosper.
So first of all let me assert my firm belief
that the only thing we have to fear is fear
itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified
terror which paralyzes needed efforts to
convert retreat into advance.”
FDR
First Inaugural Address
March 4, 1933
FDR’s New Deal marked a turning point
in America. It was a revolutionary
transformation of the federal
government from a body with limited
impact on the average person into a
machine that left few Americans
untouched.