Unit 7 Project

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Across
  1. 1. Now obsolete, pieces of it went to the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services
  2. 2. Headquarters is the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia
  3. 4. Includes Medicare, Medicaid, the FDA, the NIH, and the CDC
  4. 7. Oversees manned and unmanned space programs and carries on research in the aerospace field
  5. 8. Insures the deposits that people have in the banks (made after the failure of banks in the Great Depression)
  6. 10. AKA Freddie Mac, a similar investment corporation to the FHA that HUD oversees
  7. 12. Conducts the legal business of the United States government with the attorney general at its head
  8. 14. Originally made to oversee the practices of railroads
  9. 15. Establishes rules for air traffic
  10. 16. Leads the federal government's response to natural disasters
  11. 17. Enforces provisions of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935
  12. 18. Overseen by the Treasury Department. collects taxes within the United States
  13. 21. AKA Fannie Mae, pools FHA mortgage loans and sells them to investors
  14. 22. Formerly called the General Accounting Office, ensures that the activities of federal offices and personnel stay within the law and budget guidelines
  15. 23. Oversee actions in six geographic areas of the world, plus special task commands of Transportation, Special Operations, and Strategic Commands
  16. 24. Provides relatively inexpensive electricity to poor rural areas of the South and works to control floods
  17. 25. Inspects and grades foods that U.S. farmers produce and that importers bring into the country
Down
  1. 1. Encourages home ownership
  2. 3. Created after 9/11 to coordinate government efforts to make the country safer from attacks in the future
  3. 5. Provides assistance, information, and loans to small businesses
  4. 6. Provides grants for artistic endeavors
  5. 7. Awards lots of competive grants for medical research
  6. 8. Regulates communication by radio, television, telephone, telegraph, satellite, cable, and the Internet
  7. 9. Collect statistics on diseases, makes policies for reducing disease, and issue public health warnings
  8. 10. Certifies the quality of foods and cosmetics and approves new prescription drugs
  9. 11. Coordinates intelligence-gathering work of the government
  10. 13. Highest ranking members of the U.S. military
  11. 15. Coordinates and regulates the nationwide network of Farm Credit Associations
  12. 16. Investigates threats of terrorism against the country as well as alleged violations of federal criminal law
  13. 17. Issues weather forecasts and distributes weather datat that it gathers from satellites and other sources
  14. 19. Makes sure that companies which sell stocks are truthful about their business and their profits and losses
  15. 20. Created to meet the need for unified federal oversight of the nation's transportation system
  16. 21. Insures some mortgages that private banks make to homeowners
  17. 22. AKA Ginnie Mae, a similar investment corporation to the FHA that HUD oversees
  18. 25. Replaced the U.S. Post Office