Author Question: The Glass-Steagall Act a. took the United States off the gold standard. b. empowered President ... (Read 49 times)

mspears3 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The Glass-Steagall Act

a. took the United States off the gold standard.
b. empowered President Roosevelt to close all banks temporarily.
c. created the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the stock exchange.
d. permitted commercial banks to engage in Wall Street financial dealings.
e. created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits.

Question 2

American Indian activists brought attention to their cause in the 1970s by seizing

a. the Little Big Horn battleground and Mount Rushmore in the sacred Black Hills.
b. Alcatraz Island and Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
c. the major tribal headquarters throughout Oklahoma.
d. salmon fishing grounds in Washington and trout streams in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
e. the Tippecanoe battlefield and Mesa Verde National Park.