tailieunhanh - SAT II History Episode 2 Part 2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'sat ii history episode 2 part 2', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | REVIEWING THE GREAT DEPRESSION WORLD WAR II AND THE POSTWAR NATION NEW DEAL LEGISLATION ACT SOME PROVISIONS Tennessee Valley Authority TVA 1933 Bought built and operated dams Generated and sold electrical power Planned flood control and reforestation projects Withdrew poor land from farming Used TVA rates as a yardstick to gauge rates charged by private utilities controversial Farm Credit Administration FCA 1933 Provided funding for farm mortgages Home Owners Loan Corporation HOLC 1933 Provided funding for home mortgages Securities and Exchange Act 1934 Provided for federal regulation of securities exchanges Established the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC Banking Act of 1935 Reorganized the Federal Reserve System to give the Federal Reserve Board control over open-market operations National Youth Administration NYA 1935 Provided work-relief training and employment to people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five who were not full-time students Provided part-time employment for students to enable them to stay in school Works Progress Administration WPA 1935 Provided employment on infrastructure projects such as dredging rivers and building highways Created projects for artists writers actors and musicians Social Security Act of 1935 Established unemployment compensation fund Established old-age pension fund Set up grants to states for care of needy dependent children the physically disabled and women and children in poverty Did not cover all jobs such as farmers farm workers and domestics and therefore excluded some 80 percent of all African Americans National Labor Relations Act also known as Wagner Act 1935 Authorized the National Labor Relations Board NLRB to oversee union elections and define and prohibit unfair labor practices Fair Labor Standards Act also known as Wages and Hours Act 1938 Set maximum of a forty-four hour workweek and a minimum wage of twenty-five cents an hour for workers engaged in interstate commerce or in the production of goods