New Deal

This established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• Glass-Steagall Banking Act

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

This provided direct relief in the form of food and clothing to the neediest people hit by the Depression -- the unemployed, the aged, and the ill

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Emergency Banking Relief Act

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration

This helped to create prosperity in a poverty-stricken region by providing funds to build and repair dams, flood-control projects, and power plants

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Federal Securities Act

• National Industrial Recovery Act

This paid farmers to lower production and, in some cases, to destroy crops, with the greater goal of raising crop prices and farm income

• Glass-Steagall Banking Act

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• National Industrial Recovery Act

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

This put almost 3 million young men to work building roads, developing parks, and helping soil-erosion and flood-control projects

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• National Recovery Act

This required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the stock market

• Glass-Steagall Banking Act

• National Industrial Recovery Act

• Federal Securities Act

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration

This authorized the Treasury Department to inspect banks and to close those that were unsound, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system

• Emergency Banking Relief Act

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Glass-Steagall Banking Act

• Tennessee Valley Authority

This created an administration that set fair prices on many products and established labor standards, with the greater goal of ensuring fair business practices and promoting industrial growth

• National Industrial Recovery Act

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

The first woman cabinet member

• Francis Perkins

• Molly Dawson

• Elizabeth Porter

• Sarah McGee

Who was an African-American educator and appointed head of the Division of Negro Affairs. She helped organized a "Black Cabinet" to help advise FDR

• Marian Anderson

• Shirley Chisholm

• Mary McLeod Bethune

• Phillis Wheatley