SEC: Securities and Exchange Commission

Question 1

What did the Securities and Exchange commission (SEC) do?

Answer 1

• It regulated the stock and bond markets.
• stopped bankers from buying on margin
• helped avoid a second crash

Question 2

What does the SEC stand for?

Answer 2

Securities and Exchange Commission

Question 3

When did the SEC form?

Answer 3

1934

Question 4

Was the SEC part of Roosevelt’s first or second new Deal?

Answer 4

1st; it was part of what was known as “The Hundred Days”to get thing going again