Summary.
Alphabet Agencies were created under Franklin D Roosevelt to relive the unemployed and to prevent another stock market crash.
Alphabet Agencies
- "Relief, Recovery, Reform"
- TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority - worked on diking the Mississippi River
- FCA - Farm Credit Association Stabilizing Agricultural prices
- NRA - National Recovery Administration - Stabilize prices and improve labour conditions
- CCC - Civil Conservation Corps
- AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Act
- AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1933
- CAA - Civil Aeronautics Authority (now Federal Aviation Administration), 1933
- CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933
- CCC - Commodity Credit Corporation, 1933
- CWA - Civil Works Administration, 1933
- EBA - Emergency Banking Act, 1933
- FAP - Federal Art Project, part of WPA, 1935
- FCA - Farm Credit Administration, 1933
- FCC - Federal Communications Commission, 1934
- FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 1933
- FERA - Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933
- FHA - Federal Housing Administration, 1934
- FLA - Federal Loan Agency, 1939
- FMP - Federal Music Project, part of WPA 1935
- FSA - Farm Security Administration, 1935
- FSRC - Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, 1933
- FTP - Federal Theatre Project, part of WPA 1935
- FWA - Federal Works Agency, 1939
- FWP - Federal Writers' Project, part of WPA 1935
- FLSA - Fair labor standards act , 1938
- HOLC - Home Owners Loan Corporation, 1933
- NIRA - National Industrial Recovery Act, 1933
- NLRB - National Labor Relations Board/The Wagner Act , 1934
- NRA - National Recovery Administration, 1933
- PRRA - Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, 1933
- PWA - Public Works Administration, 1933
- RA - Resettlement Administration, 1935
- REA - Rural Electrification Administration (now Rural Utilities Service), 1935
- RFC - Reconstruction Finance Corporation (originally a Hoover agency), 1932
- SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission, 1934
- SSB - Social Security Board (now Social Security Administration), 1935
- TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933
- USHA - United States Housing Authority, 1937
- USMC - United States Maritime Commission, 1936
- WPA - Works Progress Administration, 1935