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Ch.14 TN
Final Review Matching
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Credit | Am arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy and pay later for purchases |
| Speculation | They bought on stocks and bonds on the change of a quick profit, while ignoring the risks |
| Buying on margin | Paying a small percent of a stocks price as a down payments and borrowing the rest |
| Black Tuesday | The bottom fell out of the market and the nations confidence |
| Dow Jones Industrial | Was the most used barometer of the stock market health |
| Great Depression | The period form 1929 to 1940 in which the economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed |
| Dust Bowl | Plagued by dust storms and evictions, thousands of farmers and sharecroppers left their lands behind |
| Direct Relief | Cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor. Some cities and charity services did offer relief to those in need |
| Herbert Hoover | Tried to reassure Americans that the nations economy was on a sound footing |
| Bonus Army | In 1932 WW1 veterans and their families arrived in Washington D.C. from various of the country to collect their extra benefit they where promised |