The New Deal: An Alphabet Soup of...

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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 Full Name Purpose and Information Relief, Reform, or

Recovery

CCC

SEC

AAA

WPA

TVA

SSA

FDIC

HOLC

NYA


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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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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 Civilian

Conservation Corps

Employed thousands of young men in

camps across the country improving

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.

Recovery

WPA Works Progress

Administration

Provided jobs to young men to build

schools, hospitals, and other public works. Relief

TVA Tennessee Valley

Authority

Provided jobs building dams and

improving existing ones so that electricity

could be brought to the Deep South.

Relief

SSA Social Security

Administration

Form of insurance for old age and people

with disabilities. Reform

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.

Reform

HOLC Home Owners Loan

Corporation

Loaned money at a low interest to

homeowners who could not meet their

mortgage payments.

Relief

NYA 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.

Recovery

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