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Davideckstein7

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The Federal Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Commission aimed to
 
  a. prohibit completely the sale of stocks on margin (i.e. with borrowed funds).
  b. force stockbrokers to register with the federal government.
  c. prevent interlocking directorates and business pyramiding schemes.
  d. provide full disclosure of information and prevent insider trading and other fraudulent practices.
  e. stop the practice of establishing interlocking directorates on America's corporate boards that produced controversial conflicts-of-interest in the governance of American businesses.

Question 2

The fate of most of the Okies and other Dust Bowl migrants who headed west to California was that they
 
  a. acquired farms in the San Joaquin Valley.
  b. found steady work in the canning industry.
  c. found themselves mired in poverty, squalor, and lack of economic opportunity in the San Joaquin Valley.
  d. joined reactionary, quasi-fascist organizations in protest of Roosevelt's economic policies.
  e. formed mutually supportive evangelical religious communes.



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

c



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