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History chapter 12 test review
History chapter 12 test review
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8th Grade
10/27/2011

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why was the national recovery administration created?
Definition
was created to draw up trade codes of fair competition.
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why was the federal communications commission created?
Definition
was created yo oversee interstate and foreign communication.
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why was the securities and exchange commission created?
Definition
was created to oversee stock exchanges.
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why was the national labor relations board created?
Definition
was created to protect employees rights to self organization and collective bargaining.
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why was the federal loan agency created?
Definition
was created to direct all agencies, except agricultural agencies, lending federal funds.
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why was the federal deposit insurance corporation created?
Definition
was created to insure the deposits of approved banks against loss in the event of bank failure.
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why was the home owners loan corporation created?
Definition
was created to grant long term mortgage loans on homes.
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why was the federal housing administration created?
Definition
was created to insure loans and mortgages and encourage residential construction.
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why was the social security board created?
Definition
was created to control and distribute federal retirement funds.
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why was the federal works agency created?
Definition
was created to coordinate all public construction.
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list some facts about F.D.R.and some events that happened in his presidency.
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he was an only child,he was an aristocrat,had polio, he was a democrat, was confined to a wheelchair, his famous quote was"the only thing to fear is fear itself.", pearl harbor was attacked by the japanese, and he was elected to 4 terms, died early in the fourth.
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what was the biggest new deal?
Definition
the federal works program.
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what was the event called"100 days"?
Definition
a period of time where F.D.R. sent ideas to congress and congress passed 15 of the ideas, they were known as the first new deals.
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