History: Chapter 15

This paid farmers to lower production and, in some cases, to destroy crops, with the greater goal of raising crop prices and farm income.

Agricultural Adjustment Act

This put almost 3 million young men to work building roads, developing parks, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-control projects.

Civilian Conservation Corps

This authorized the Treasury Department to inspect banks and to close those that were unsound, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system.

Emergency Banking Relief Act

Created through the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, this shored up the banking system by protecting people's savings against loss in the event of a bank failure.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

This provided direct relief in the form of food and clothing to the neediest people hit by the depression--the unemployed, the aged, and the ill.

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

This required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the stock market.

Federal Securities Act

This established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system.

Glass-Steagall Banking Act

One of the most popular movies of all time, this sweeping drama about life among Southern plantation owners during the Civil War starred Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.

Gone with the Wind

His famous painting, "American Gothic, " depicts two stern-faced farmers standing stiffly in front of their farmhouse.

Grant Wood

This created an administration that set fair prices on many products and established labor standards, with the greater goal of ensuring fair business practices and promoting industrial growth.

National Industrial Recovery Act

Created under the Wagner Act, this continues to act as a mediator in disputes between unions and employers.

National Labor Relations Board

This actor, director, producer, and writer created one of the most famous radio broadcasts of all time, "The War of the Worlds, " and directed the movie classic, Citizen Kane.

Orson Welles

His classic novel, Native Son, depicts the difficulties faced by a young man trying to survive in a racist world.

Richard Wright

Created in 1934, this continues to monitor the stock market and enforce laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds.

Securities and Exchange Commission

This provides for an old-age insurance program.

Social Security Act

This provides for an unemployment compensation program.

Social Security Act.

This provides programs that aid needy families with children and the needy disabled.

Social Security Act..

Pollution was an unfortunate result of this program to promote flood control and build hydroelectric power plants.

Tennessee Valley Authority

This helped to create prosperity in a poverty-stricken region by providing funds to build and repair dams, flood-control projects, and power plants.

Tennessee Valley Authority

This classic novel written by John Steinbeck focuses on the difficulties faced by people who, forced off the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl, move to California.

The Grapes of Wrath

This increased during the Roosevelt administration as the federal government enacted reforms to stabilize the economy.

federal deficit

This federally regulated crop price was intended to stabilize farmer's incomes.

parity

Under the second Agricultural Act, loans made to farmers were based on this value of their surplus crops.

parity.