
Grades: 9-12
Ethics, Economics, and Social Issues
Help your students to think critically about ethical issues and understand why ideas of right and wrong are vita…
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Grades 9-12
Grades 9-12
On this day in 1934, with a stroke of his pen, President Roosevelt signed the Securities Exchange Act. This act was designed to set rules and regulation on the notoriously corrupt New York Stock Exchange that caused the 1929 crash. This legislation also started the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), which is responsible for monitoring the nation's brokerage houses and investment banks.