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Ch. 11 Vocab

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1. Herbert Hoover Republican candidate for Pres.
2. speculation high-risk investments in order to gain a large profit
3. Black Tuesday oct. 29 1929 the stock market fell dramaticly
4. business cycle periodic growth ad contraction of the economy
5. Great Depression 1929-1941 when the stock markets crashed the economy fell and people went hungry
6. bread line places or literal lines where they gave out food to the hungry
7. Hooverville "towns" of tents, empty railcars or homemade houses made out of scraps grouped together
8. tenant farmer farmers who work for bigger landowners rather than just for themselves
9. Dust Bowl TX,OK,KS,NM,, and Co..places where huge sand storms would occur
10. Okies refugees from the mid west that escaped the sand storms
11. repatriation process in which Mex. Americans were encouraged, forced by local or state and federal officials to return to Mex. durig the 1930's
12. localism the policy where problems could be solved on a state or local level
13. Reconstruction Finance Co. RFC 1932 gave billions of dollars in gov't loans to RRs and large businesses
14. trickle down economics pyramid illustration that says the money at the top of the economy will trickle down into the bottom
15. Bonus Army 1931 a group of WWI veterans who came together because the wanted the bonus promised to them by the gov't
16. Hoover Dam boulder dam, on the Co. river built during Great Depression
17. Douglas MacArthur general called to send away bonus army
18. Hawley-Smoot Tariff raised prices on foreign goods 1930
Created by: Hal_McGrath
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