chapter 13
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| caused in part by global economic problems and consumer debt | Great Depression
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| local mutual aid societies formed by Mexican American communities | Mutualistas
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| an upward trend in stock prices | Bull market
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| percentage of work force who lost their jobs during the depression | one fourth (1/4)
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| provided money to RR, insurance companies and banks: provided no direct aid to industries or small businesses | Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
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| voters blames Hoover for the Depression, FDR inspired voters, Hoovers popular support had eroded | 1932 election
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| lost their land during the depression because they lacked money to pay their mortgages | farm families
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| caused stock prices to rise above their true value | speculative buying
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| court case that showed the growing power of the Communist party in the US | Scottsboro Boys
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| boycotted companies who did not hire Mexican Americans, lobbied for expanded relief programs, encourage bilingual education for migrant children (person) | Josefina Fierro de Bright
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| based government policy on his belief in rugged individualism | Herbert Hoover
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| unemployed veterans who marched on DC to demand early payment of pension bonuses | Bonus Army
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| purchasing stock with borrowed money | margin buying
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| makeshift shelters, also known as Homerville's | Shantytowns
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| provided money to savings banks, loan associations and insurance companies for low interest mortgages | Home Loan Bank Act
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| Radios, movies and literature would all have been a part of this in the 1930's | popular culture
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| provided enormous profits for investors as prices rose | stock market
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| organized by local communities to provide food for the hungry | breadlines
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| one way that people in Asian American communities helped to provide food for the hungry | rice barrels
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| many unemployed took up this occupation to see them through the depression | selling apples
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| faced discrimination during the depression | African Americans
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| candidate who won the 1932 election in part because of voter dissatisfaction with the Republican handling of the depression | Franklin Roosevelt
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| October 29, 1929 when investors sold over 16 million shares of stock and caused the market to sink even lower | Black Tuesday
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| the belief that individual effort and private enterprise could best provide for the needs of the people | rugged individualism
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| regular ups and downs of business in a free-enterprise economy | business cycle
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| where the community would get together to pay someone's rent for a month | rent parties
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| their number in the work force grew because they could be hired more cheaply than men | women
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| were forced to leave crops to rot in fields and eventually leave their land | rural farmers
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| most entertainment of the 1930's was this form | Escapist
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| government program to buy excess food | Agricultural Marketing Act
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