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This was established to police the stock market.

Soap operas were radio dramas that were geared toward women that were alone at home during the day.  They were named “soap” operas because soap companies were often the sponsors of these dramas.

The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 failed to improve conditions for farmers because ___________.

While Americans were suffering from the Depression, Eastern Europeans were witnessing the rise of fascism led by Hitler and Mussolini.

Roosevelt’s New Deal almost destroyed the Democratic Party.  The Democrats would not gain control of the White House again until the 1960s.

The new technologies in agriculture, like new tractors powered by a combustion engine, increased productivity.  In fact, it increased it so greatly that surplus outpaced the demand.

This program established a system of work relief for the unemployed.  It was responsible for building or renovating 110,000 public buildings and constructing over 500,000 miles of road.

The Tennessee Valley Authority was one of the largest experiments in government-funded public works and regional planning in American history to that point.  But never before had it underaken a project of such great scope, and never before had it maintained such close control and ownership over the public works it helped create.

The goals of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) included all the following except ___________.

A region that stretched north from Texas into the Dakotas and experienced a decade-long drought that began in 1930.  It turned what had once been fertile farmland into a desert.