SEC. Securities and Exchange Commission Regulates stock market and prevents fraud Reform

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1 New Deal Programs

2 SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Regulates stock market and prevents fraud Reform

3 Glass-Steagall Act Separates commercial banking from investment banking Banks can t risk depositors money by using it to speculate in the stock market Reform

4 FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Government insurance for bank deposits Increases public confidence in the banks Reform

5 AAA Agricultural Adjustment Administration Reduces agricultural surplus and raised prices for struggling farmers Government pays farmers to not grow certain livestock and raise certain crops Recovery

6 NIRA National Industrial Recovery Act Allows business, labor and government to cooperate in setting up voluntary rules for different industries Sometimes set prices, created minimum wages, and limited factories to two shifts per day (in order to spread out the work) Recovery

7 NRA National Recovery Administration Controlled industrial production and prices with industry-created codes of fair competition Recovery

8 HOLC Home Owner s Loan Corporation Meant to help homeowners pay their mortgages Government bought mortgages and restructured them so it was easier to pay Recovery

9 FCA Farm Credit Administration Help farmers refinance their mortgages Lowered interest rates Recovery

10 CCC Civilian Conservation Corps Employed single men, 18-25, for natural resource conservation Earned $30 a month with a mandatory $25 being sent home Relief

11 PWA Public Works Administration Created construction projects improve highways, dams, sewer systems, waterworks, schools Government did not hire workers directly, but created contracts for companies to hire workers Relief

12 CWA Civil Works Administration Didn t think PWA was working fast enough, so CWA was created Hired workers directly, they built/improved airports, roads, school buildings, parks, and more Relief

13 TVA Tennessee Valley Authority Built hydroelectric plants and damns aimed at improving seven Southern states and attracting industry to the South Recovery

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15 WPA Works Project Administration Work relief and focused on increasing employment by providing useful projects About $11 billion spent, about 11.5 million workers Relief

16 NLRB National Labor Relations Board Wagner Act: guaranteed workers the right to organize unions without interference from employers NLRB was set up by the Wagner Act Organized factory elections by secret ballot to determine if workers want a union Certified the successful unions Reform

17 Social Security Act Created an unemployment system, disability insurance, oldage pension and child welfare benefits People 65+ could collect benefits when they stopped working Reform (and Recovery)

18 Alphabet Soup in Oregon

19 Crater Lake Lodge: CCC

20 Crater Lake Rim Drive and Crater Lake National Park: CCC

21 Oregon Caves Chateau: CCC Oregon Caves National Monument CCC

22 Silver Creek Falls State Park and Silver Falls Ranger Station: CCC

23 North Salem High School: PWA

24 Bonneville Dam: PWA

25 Oregon State Capitol Building: PWA

26 Knight Library, University of Oregon: WPA

27 Lithia Park, Ashland: WPA

28 PDX: WPA

29 Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood: WPA

30 Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood: WPA

31 Art in Timberline Lodge: WPA

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33 Murals Grants Pass Post Office: Treasury Section of Fine Arts

34 John Green New Deal k6jna

35 Overproduction Laissez-Faire Trickle-Down Economics Dust Bowl The New Deal

36 (5 min) you can work with someone that has the SAME color paper as you, or by yourself. Figure out what clues you are going to give to get someone to guess your words. Remember you can not use any version of the word. So for FCA you can not say, refinanced loans for farmers. Farmers is a version of farm. Find someone with the other color paper. Quiz each other. Time it. We will go again; see if your time improves.

37 Public Works Administration (PWA) Home Owner s Loan Corporation (HOLC) Social Security Act National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) Herbert Hoover Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Farm Credit Administration (FCA) Civil Works Administration (CWA) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)