New Deal Programs and Their Impact

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Insured bank deposits of up to 5,000. This helped to bring confidence back into the banks.

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FDIC

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Safer stock investments: FDIC, SEC, AAA, TVA

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SEC

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Financial Aid to farmers who were encouraged to burn crops and slaughter livestock to reduce supply and increase demand.

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

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Built a series of dams in the TN River Valley to control flooding and generate power

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Tennessee Valley Authority

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Jobs for 2 million young men. Replanted forests and built trials

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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Loaned money out to homeowners with a low interest rates for those who could not pay their morgages.

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Home Owners Loan Corporation

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Which of these governed industries setting a minimum wage and minimum prices for goods? Public Works Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, National Goods and Services Administration, National Recovery Administration

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National Recovery Administration

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Built dams, bridges, power plants, hospitals, schools, and roads.

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Public Works Administration

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Which was a guiding principle of New Deal economic policies? Options: “Rugged individualism” will end social inequality, Antitrust legislation could destroy the free enterprise system, State governments should have more power over the economy than the national government

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Government must assume greater responsibility for helping the unfortunate

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One difference between the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Hoover was that Roosevelt was-

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more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problems