American Yawp Complete Practice Exam 2026

Regulation of industry through codes of fair competition is what the New Deal program aimed to do here. The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was created to get businesses to agree on codes that set standards for prices, wages, hours, and production. The idea was to curb destructive competition by voluntary—but coordinated—rules that all firms in an industry would follow, with the government providing enforcement and legitimacy. This reflects the era’s push to reshape the economy through centralized planning and industry-wide cooperation among business, labor, and government.

Other programs from the era worked in different ways. The Civilian Conservation Corps focused on public works and employment in conservation projects, not industry-wide codes. The Social Security Act built a social insurance system, not regulatory codes for business. The Works Progress Administration funded broad public-works and infrastructure projects, again not industry regulation through codes.

So the program that sought to regulate industry through codes of fair competition is the one associated with establishing those coordinated industry rules under a national framework.