1. Economy Act – reduces federal salaries to reduce deficit
Banking/Finance
Emergency Banking Act – shuts down all banks, re-organizes & reinforces them, then reopens them (Bank Holiday)
Economy Act – reduces federal salaries to reduce deficit
Federal Securities Act – sets up SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) to regulate stock market, prevent reckless trading
Banking Act of 1933 – sets up FDIC to insure bank deposits up to $2500
Banking Act of 1935 – FDIC covers up to $5000 in bank deposits (restore faith in banks)
Gold Reserve act – crime to possess or trade in gold –
gov’t buys up all gold, then melts it
US essentially abandons gold standard once and for all

2. Revenue Act – raises taxes substantially on upper income brackets
Financial Relief
Revenue Act – raises taxes substantially on upper income brackets
Social Security Act – provides assistance for retirees, unemployed, families w/ dependant children, handicapped

3. Industry & Labor
National Industrial Recovery Act – creates NRA to regulate industries & set labor standards
Declared unconstitutional by SC, replaced by several programs
Fair Labor Standards Act – sets fed. Minimum wage, 40-hr work weeks, overtime pay, ends most child labor
National Labor Relations Act (aka Wagner Act) – protects rights of unions to organize, collective bargaining, and use of strikes
Sets up NLRB for arbitration – pro-union

4. CCC – provides jobs for over ½ million Americans
Employment
CCC – provides jobs for over ½ million Americans
Construction jobs in rural areas
Planted trees, forestry projects, etc.
WPA – jobs in construction, arts, media
Employed over 3 million (largest employer in US)
TVA – built dams, provided irrigation, hydroelectric power in South
Also programs to modernize southern industry
Civil Works Admin. – temporary jobs to unemployed, mostly construction
NYA – work-study programs, part-time job training for teens/young adults
PWA – large scale construction projects

5. Agriculture AAA – raise agri. prices by reducing supply
Subsidies to farmers
Declared unconst., but replaced by another AAA in 1938
Farm Credit Act – helps farmers refinance at low rates
Federal Farm Bankruptcy Act – limits ability of banks to repossess farms
Taylor Grazing act – fed. Gov’t can regulate grazing to protect against overuse of land
Soil Conservation & Domestic Allotment Act – same as AAA
FCIC – Federal Crop Insurance Corp. – like FDIC for farmers – insures crops & livestock
Farm Security Admin. – educ./econ. Programs for struggling farmers

6. Home Owners Loan Act – helps people get loans to buy homes
Housing
Home Owners Refinance Act – helps homeowners refinance, avoid foreclosure
Home Owners Loan Act – helps people get loans to buy homes
National Housing Act – gov’t standards for home-building, promotes mortgage loans
Resettlement Admin. – relocates struggling urban/rural families to planned communities
Helps tenant farmers, sharecroppers

7. Arts
Federal Art Project – commissions artists to make murals, paintings, posters in schools, hospitals, libraries
Federal Writer’s Project – commissions writers to make accounts of American folklore
Federal Theater Project – commissions dramatists/actors to put on stage production
All these designed to put $$ into economy, but also create artistic diversions from misery of depression
All these were under the WPA
They made the posters for the agencies

8. Various things
Communications Act – sets up FCC to regulate broadcasting
Also generates revenue by requiring radio (and later TV) stations to pay licensing fee
Public Utilities Holding Company act – federal regulation of public utilities, esp. electricity
Rural Electrification admin. – to bring elec. Power to rural areas
Bankhead Jones Act – more funding for land-grant colleges
Also allows fed gov’t to take over damaged lands, fix them, use for parks, etc.
Repeal of Prohibition (21st Amend.)