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This government agency was created by Congress to bring confidence to the banking system.  It insures depositors that if the bank fails, it will insure money up to a certain amount.  In the 1920s, depositors’ money was insured up to $2,500.  Now, depositors’ money is insured up to $250,000.

A 17-year old girl from Haiti was taken by a woman from her village with 5 other girls to a witchdoctor. The witchdoctor performed rituals for them. He told them that if they did not follow the rules, they would go “mad” and their parents would die. He took some of their hair, their clothes, and mixed them with chicken blood, and cast spells over them. After the rituals, the women were told they could go to America to work and make a lot of money for their families. The woman took the girls to America. Once in America, the girls were told to have sex with many men. The girls did as they were told, otherwise the witchdoctor would make them go “mad” or they were told they would get a disease. Which ACTS are used in this case of human trafficking  (select all that apply)? 

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.