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Ch.12 Test Terms
Term | Definition |
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Crash of 1929 | Stock market prices fell marking the beginning of the Great Depression |
Hundred Days | Special session of Congress kept busy passing Roosevelt's programs |
New Deal | Roosevelt's programs to fight the Depression |
Bonus Army | Army veterans that marched to D.C. to collect early payment for fighting in WWI |
2nd New Deal | Another set of programs to fight the Depression. It was passed in 1935 |
Deficit Spending | Using borrowed money to pay for government programs |
Dust Bowl | The "Dust Bowl" was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s |
Sit-Down-Strike | Workers stop working but stay on the job site |
SEC | Keeps an eye on the stock market |
Liberal | A political view that favors strong government action |
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