A New Deal for Americans, 1931–1939
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The __________ created a Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate stock markets and activities by brokers.

Craft unions representing trades such as carpenters, plumbers, and electricians dominated the largest labor organization, the __________.

In 1934, Congress approved the __________ that encouraged states to provide better health care and education to Indian tribes.

In 1934, Congress approved the __________ that encouraged states to provide better health care and education to Indian tribes.

Newly energized unions representing industrial workers and accepting blacks and minorities formed the __________ in 1935.

Created in 1933, the __________ provided farmers with credit, and loans, as well as financial incentives to those who agreed to limit production of corn, wheat, cotton, tobacco, and livestock.

On March 9, 1933, the president persuaded Congress to pass an __________, which established a system to audit, loan funds to, and reopen banks under Treasury Department supervision.

The __________ built a network of dams and hydroelectric projects to control floods, generate power, and promote growth in a chronically poor area of the South.

Between March and June 1933, often dubbed the __________, Roosevelt prevailed on Congress to pass fourteen pieces of major legislation.

Passed in 1935, the __________ funded retirement pensions beginning at age 65, with workers' and employers' contributions.

Decades of corn and wheat cultivation on the Great Plains, the destruction of native grasses, and prolonged drought created the major ecological disaster of the 1930s, the __________.

In 1932, Hoover persuaded Congress to create the __________ to loan money to struggling banks, railroads, manufacturers, and mortgage companies.

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