5. Which New Deal Program was
the most important?
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6. Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
• Intended to halt
Bank Runs
• Insured bank
deposits up to
$5,000.00
• Still in tact today
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive
7. Agricultural Adjustment Act
• Intended to help
victims of the
Dust Bowl
• Intended to stop
overproduction
• Paid land-
owners NOT to
grow crops
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive
8. National Recovery Act
• Intended to
improve working
conditions for the
poor
• Suggested a
minimum wage
• Suggested limited
work hours
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive
9. Public Works Administration
• Intended to
resolve
unemployment
• Created jobs
building
highways,
dams, sewer
systems,
schools
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive
10. Works Progress
Administration
• Intended to
resolve
unemployment
• Created jobs
building dams,
libraries, bridges
• Created jobs for
musicians, writers,
artists
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive
11. Securities and Exchange
Commission
• Intended to
regulate corruption
in stock market
• Regulated the
purchasing of
stocks on margin
• Regulated “insider
trading”
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive
12. Tennessee Valley Authority
• Intended to bring
electricity to rural
areas
• Intended to stop
disastrous floods
• Intended to limit
soil erosion
• Build dams on the
Tennessee River
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive
13. Social Security Act
• Intended to provide aid
for disabled
• Intended to encourage
retirement and create
job opportunities for
younger Americans
• Established a pension
fund for elderly or
disabled workers and
their dependents
• Excludes agricultural
and domestic workers
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive
14. National Labor Relations
Board
• Intended to
improve working
conditions
• Legalized labor
unions and
collective
bargaining
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive