1. Make a list of everything you know about the
Depression. Make sure to include details such as its
causes, as well as the main events that occurred
between 1929 and 1932.
3. March 4, 1933
The First Hundred Days
Closing the Banks
March 5, 1933
Emergency Banking Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Providing Relief and Creating Jobs
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Public Works Programs
Civil Works Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Indian Reorganization Act
4. A Helping Hand to Business
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
National Recovery Act
Public Works Administration
Federal Securities Act
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
5. Saving Homes and Farms
Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
The TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
6. Brain Trust
Raymond Moley
Adolf Berle
Rexford Tugwell
Frances Perkins
Mary McLeod Bethune
7. Eleanor Roosevelt
“My Day”
The New Deal Falters
A Second New Deal
New and Expanded Agencies
Workers Progress Administration (WPA)
Resettlement Administration
Farm Security Administration (FSA)
8. New Labor Legislation
Wagner Act
(National Labor Relations Act)
Fair Labor Standards Act
Social Legislation
Social Security Act
1. old age pensions and survivors’ benefits
2. unemployment insurance
3. aid for dependent children, the blind, and the physically
disabled
1936 Election
