Alphabet Agenies Flashcards
What does the NRA stand for?
National Recovery Administration.
What did the FERA do?
Provide relief to starving, penniless and homeless by setting up soup kitchens and disrupting clothes.
What did the NRA do?
Allowed workers to join trade unions.
Regulated prices and work conditions.
What does the CCC stand for?
Civilian Conservation Corps
What did the AAA do?
Paid farmers to produce less so prices would fall. It burnt surplus products.
What does the FERA stand for?
Federal Emegency Relief Adminstartion.
What does the CCC do?
Men under 25 work on a conservation programme which fed, housed and educated and sent wages home.
What does the AAA stand for?
Agricultural Adjustment Adminstration
What did the CWA do?
Short term scheme which provided random jobs.
What does the HOLC do?
Loaned people moment to prevent them losing there houses at low interest rates.
What does the HOLC stand for?
Home Owners Loan Corporation.
What does the CWA stand for?
Civil Works Adminstration.
What does the PWA stand for?
Public works Adminstration
What does the PWA do?
Provided employment by people building roads, schools and other projects.
