1. Alphabet Soup In 1933 when FDR took office, ______________ Americans were out of work Civilian Conservation Corps (_________): hired unemployed single men _______________ - For $____ a day, they planted trees, built bridges, worked on flood-control projects, parks - Conserved ________________________________& gave jobs to young people Works Progress Administration (________): 1935 – put the jobless to work - Making ______________& building _____________, schools, parks, playgrounds, and airports - Hired artists, photographers, actors, writers & composers to entertain & educate the public - WPA writers collected information about American life, folklore & ________________ Promoting Recovery: The bring recovery, the President had to boost ____________________& ______________________ Helping Industry - _______________________ & _________________________ had been a major cause of the depression - Low prices had caused businesses to fail & had caused high _____________________________rates National Industrial Recovery Act (_____): each industry wrote a code, or a set of rules & standards for production, wages, prices & working conditions - The NIRA tried to end price cutting & ____________________ - To enforce the new codes, Congress set up the National Recovery Administration (__________) - Companies that followed the NRA codes stamped _______________________on their products - The gov’t encouraged people to business only with companies displaying the eagle - This caused ________________________between companies - The NIRA also set up the Public Works Administration (_____________): promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public works projects - Workers built dams, ______________, aircraft carriers for the navy Helping Farmers - On farms, overproduction remained the major problem - Surpluses kept prices and farmers’ incomes ______________ - ___________________: when company or farm produce more than they can sell

2. More help for farmers… Agricultural Adjustment Act (___________): gov’t paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops -Roosevelt hoped that with smaller harvests, laws of _______________________would cause prices to rise -By limiting the amount of “available” options, people would pay more lump sums for ________________________ The gov’t paid for farmers to plow surplus crops under the soil & destroy surplus cows & pigs -People thought this was crazy when people in cities were ___________________ -The plan was necessary to help farmers ______________________& keep them growing food Rural Electrification Administration (_____): help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas - Provided $$ to extend electric lines to ______________areas - # of farms with electricity rose from ______________% - Electricity helped to save many farms from ruin *___________________– dairy farmers could keep milk & eggs longer Tennessee Valley Authority (__________): set out to remake the Tennessee River Valley – a vast region that had suffered from terrible floods that had caused ________ of the areas farms & families to fail -_____dams were built in ______ states – also produced cheap electric power - The TVA deepened river channels for shipping - Planted new forests to conserve __________ - Developed new _______________to improve farmland - Set up ______________& health centers - Result: transformed a region of desperation & poverty into a prosperous & productive area Preventing Another Depression - During the Hundred Days, Congress passed laws regulating the stock market & banking system -_________________________Ac t: end the risky buying/ selling of stocks in the hope of making a quick profit -Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (__________): Insured savings accounts in banks approved by the gov’t – if a bank insured by the FDIC failed, the gov’t would make sure depositors received their $$