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- 2. Created with the $4.8 billion Emergency Relief Appropriations Act of 1935
- 4. this important labor law set the minimum wage at 25 cents/hour and established the 40-hour work week.
- 6. ____ employed four million people for about $15 a week in useful construction jobs such as repairing schools, laying sewer pipes, building roads.
- 7. Congress created the _____ to insure bank customers received up to $5,000 of their deposits if their banks should fail.
- 9. ____ provided financial support to nearly five million households each month and funded thousands of works projects for the unemployed.
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- 1. ____ spent over $4 billion on 34,000 construction projects including public buildings, highways, bridges
- 2. Under its symbol of a blue eagle and slogan ("We Do Our Part"), the _____ temporarily restored investor confidence and consumer morale.
- 3. ____to protect the rights of workers to organize into unions and collectively bargain with their employers.
- 5. ____ took unmarried men aged 18-25 and sent them into the woods and fields to plant trees, build parks, roads, and fight soil erosion on federal lands.
- 7. ____ was created in 1934 to stimulate the building industry.
- 8. _____ is to serve as a federal "watchdog" agency to protect investors from stock market fraud, deception and insider manipulation on Wall Street.