AP Ch9 The New Deal

African Americans who held posts in cabinet departments and New Deal agencies.

• Mary Mcleod Bethune

• Black Cabinet

• public works

• minimum wage

Promoted development projects that would improve navigation, create electricity, and control floods

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Civil Works Administration

• Public Works Administration

Established pensions for retirees, payments for the unemployed, and aid for older Americans

• Social Security Act

• Securities Exchange Commission

• Department of Welfare

• National Pension Foundation

Encourages cooperation among businesses in establishing production and labor practices.

• National Labor Relations Act

• National Relief Commission

• National Industrial Recovery Act

• National Youth Commission board

Provided jobs to young men 18-25 years old like planting trees and improving the nations parks

• Civil Works Administration

• Public Works Act

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Federal Securities Administration

Established insurance programs for deposits in many banks.

• Agricultural Adjustment Bureau

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Emergency Bank Administration

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corps.

Increased government regulation on the stock market

• Federal Insurance Deposit Act

• Securities and exchange commission

• Social security act

• Tennessee Valley Authority

Enforced labor laws, established the NLRB, and helped to protect unions and collective bargaining.

• National Labor Relations Board

• National Industrial recovery Act

• Western Union Discovery Administration

• National Labor Relations Act

Encourages farmers to cut production in return for a subsidy

• AAA

• ETC

• TBD

• CVS

Government funded building projects that would provide jobs

• public works

• civilian jobs

• fireside chats

• conservation