A 1934 law created a federal body that insured long-term mortgages made by private lenders, so banks would accept smaller down payments and stretch loans over more years. Which body was it?

Created by Title II of the recovery act of June 1933 and run by Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, this body did not hire workers itself: it let contracts to private construction firms for dams, bridges and public buildings. Which was it?

One agency put unemployed writers, actors, musicians and painters on the federal payroll through the Federal Writers' Project and the Federal Theater Project. Which agency ran them?

Set up in November 1933 to carry the jobless through one winter, it had roughly four million people on a federal payroll by January 1934 and was shut down that March. Which was it?

A federal corporation created in May 1933 built and operated dams along a river system running through seven southern states, controlling floods and selling the electricity the dams generated. Which was it?

In 1933 this program paid farmers to leave part of their land unplanted and to plow under cotton and slaughter young hogs, raising prices by cutting the surplus. The money came from a tax on processors. Which program?

Enrollees lived in work camps organized with Army help and earned $30 a month, of which $25 was sent straight home to their families. Which program enrolled them?

Under this body, industries drew up codes of fair competition setting hours, wages and prices, and a firm that signed on displayed a Blue Eagle with the words 'We Do Our Part'. Which body?

Created in 1935, this board ran the secret-ballot elections in which workers chose whether a union would represent them, and certified the winner. Which was it?

Signed on August 14, 1935, this law set up a joint federal-state unemployment insurance system and federal grants to the states for aid to dependent children and the blind. Which law?

Days after taking office in March 1933, Roosevelt closed every bank, and this law let examiners license the sound ones to reopen. He then explained the plan on the radio in his first fireside chat. Which law?

This 1935 law guaranteed private-sector workers the right to organize and bargain collectively and made it illegal for an employer to fire someone for union activity. Which law?

One act of June 1933 did two jobs at once: its first title set up the industry codes, and its second title created the large public works program. Which act was it?

Roosevelt named Joseph P. Kennedy the first chairman of one of these bodies in 1934, on the theory that a man who knew Wall Street's tricks could police them. Which body did Kennedy head?

The Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 separated commercial banking from investment banking and created a federal corporation that stood behind the money savers left at member banks. Which body did it create?

Created in May 1933 with $500 million and run by Harry Hopkins, this body handed federal money to state and local relief agencies rather than running programs of its own. Which was it?

A city family in 1934 is four months behind and the lender has started foreclosure. One body would buy that loan and rewrite it over a longer term; another only insures new loans to buyers in good standing. Which body can help this family?

Farmers in Nebraska formed a cooperative in 1937 and borrowed federal money to build lines out to their own farms. Which New Deal body made loans like that, rather than building and running the works itself?

Two agencies were still building in 1938. One let contracts to private firms for big projects; the other hired the unemployed straight onto a government payroll for smaller local jobs. Which one hired them directly?

One 1935 law promised a monthly check paid out of a fund built from taxes on a worker's own wages and on the employer, not from relief money given on the basis of need. Which law set up that contributory system?

A 17-year-old still enrolled in high school in 1936 is paid for part-time work in the school office so her family can keep her in class. Which New Deal body paid her?

Two complaints land in Washington in 1935: a saver asks who guarantees her account at a member bank, and an investor says a company lied about its finances when it sold him stock. Which body handles the investor's complaint?

Ickes' agency was attacked for spending too slowly, its money tied up in surveys and contracts for huge projects, while Hopkins' agencies pushed wages out fast. Which agency drew the complaint about slow spending?

One 1933 body sent grants to state relief boards, which decided who got the money. Another put men on a federal payroll and paid them wages for work that winter. Which one paid the wages directly?

A 1933 program enrolled unemployed young men, fed and housed them, and sent most of their monthly pay home to families with no income at all. Which of the New Deal's three purposes does that serve?

A 1933 banking law permanently barred commercial banks from dealing in securities and created a federal corporation to insure depositors' accounts, so a later panic could not spread the way the bank runs of 1930 to 1933 had. Relief, recovery or reform?

A 1933 program paid farmers to plant less so that the surplus would shrink and crop prices would climb back toward what they had been before the slump. How is that program classified?

From 1935 a federal agency hired millions of jobless people to build roads, schools and airports and paid them a wage while the private economy stayed slack. Which purpose does that mainly serve?

A 1933 body brought business leaders together to write codes fixing minimum wages, maximum hours and prices, so that firms would stop cutting each other's prices and industrial output could turn upward. Relief, recovery or reform?

Laws of 1933 and 1934 required companies to file honest financial statements before selling stock to the public, and put the exchanges under a permanent federal commission. Which of the three purposes is that?

A 1935 law built a permanent national system of old-age benefits and unemployment insurance, funded by payroll taxes, that would go on paying long after the slump had ended. Which purpose does that serve?

In the spring of 1933 Congress voted $500 million to be handed to state and local relief boards for food, fuel and cash payments to families that winter. Which of the three purposes does that serve?

Which of these was created during the Hundred Days in the spring of 1933 rather than in the second wave of legislation in 1935?

Which of these belongs to the second wave of New Deal laws in 1935, not to the Hundred Days of 1933?

Which pair of laws was passed in 1935, in the second burst of New Deal legislation?

Which of these New Deal programs came only in 1935, rather than in the busy spring of 1933?

In May 1935 a unanimous Supreme Court held in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States that Congress had handed away legislative power it could not delegate, and had reached business that was not interstate commerce. Which program did the ruling end?

In United States v. Butler (1936) the Court struck down the tax on processors that paid for a program's benefit checks, holding it was not a true tax but a way to control something left to the states. Which program lost its funding?

After the Court struck down two of his biggest programs, Roosevelt sent Congress a plan in February 1937. What did the plan ask for?

Which critic of the New Deal built a national following on a 'Share Our Wealth' plan that would cap large fortunes and guarantee every family a homestead and a yearly income?