Great Depression

Made business and gave people the right to join unions, still around today

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• FDIC

• National Recovery Association

• National Labor Relations Board

Ensures fair business and labor practices

• National Recovery Administration

• Public Works Administration

• National Labor Relations Board

• Works Progress Administration

Helped construction workers get jobs doing public projects (highways, bridges, sewers)

• National Recovery Administration

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• Public Works Administration (PWA)

• Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)

Hires jobless people to build public buildings and parks.

• CCC

• Works Progress Administration

• Security Exchange Commission

• National Labor Relations Board

relief that provided work for young men 18-25 years old in food control, planting, flood work, etc.

• CCC

• National Recovery Administration

• Works Progress Administration

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New Deal agency established to provide a public watchdog against deception and fraud in stock trading

• Social Security

• Security Exchange Commission

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• New Deal

required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings and made them liable for any misrepresentations

• FDIC

• Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

• Federal Securities Act

• National Recovery Administration

the government agency that insures customers' deposits if a bank fails

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• Emergency Banking Act

• FDIC

set up a system by which banks would be reorganized or reopened and ensured the financial health of banks would be inspected

• FDIC

• Dow Jones Industrial Average

• Social Security Act

• Emergency Banking Act

legislation passed in 1930 that established very high tariffs. Its objective was to reduce imports and stimulate the domestic economy, but it resulted only in retaliatory tariffs by other nations

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• Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

• New Deal

• Hoovervilles