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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| speculation | what seems like what is going to happen |
| Black Tuesday | stock market crashed |
| business cycle | explains the periodic growth and contraction of the economy |
| bread line | when men stood in line for hours just to get bread |
| Hooverville | another word for shanty towns |
| tenant farmer | working for bigger landowners rather than for themselves |
| Dust Bowl | A large drought in the Midwest with dust storms |
| Okies | Refugees of the Dust Bowl area |
| repatriation | involved efforts by local, state, and federal governments to encourage or coerce Mexican immigrants and their naturalized children to return to Mexico |
| localism | the policy whereby problems could best be solved at local and state levels |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | gave more than a billion dollars of government loans to railroads and large businesses |
| trickle-down economics | money given to big business men and then it would spread into the people |
| Hoover Dam | large dam that powers California, Nevada, and Arizona |
| Bonus Army | WW1 vets that wanted the bonus that Congress had promised them |
| New Deal | FDRs plan to end the Great Depression |
| fireside chat | way for the president to communicate to the American people through radio |
| FDIC | protection for the people against bank failure |
| TVA | dams that were in the Tennessee River valley to control floods and to generat |
| CCC | civilian conservation corps provided jobs for more than two million young men |
| NRA | National Recovery Administration codes of fair competition to govern whole industries |
| PWA | Public Works Administration built bridges, dams, power plates, and government buildings |
| Second New Deal | addressed the problems of the elderly, the poor, and the unemployed |
| WPA | Works Progress Administration built or improved a good part of the naiton's highways, dredged rivers and harbors, and promoted soil and water conservation |
| pump priming | putting people to work on public projects put money into the hands of consumers who would buy more goods, stimulating the economy |
| Social Security Act | established unemployment insurance for workers who lost their jobs |
| Wagner Act | recognized the right of employees to join labor unions and gave workers the right of collective bargaining |
| collective bargaining | meant that employers had to negotiate with unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | provided workers with additional rights |
| CIO | made because some people were fed up with the AFL |
| sit-down strikes | workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached |
| court packing | FDR thought that the supreme court was filled with old worn out people |
| Black Cabinet | held aa advisers to the president |
| Indian New Deal | a program that gave Indians economic assistance and greater control over their own affairs |
| New Deal coalition | brought together southern whites, northern blue-collar worker- especially those with immigrant roots- poor midwestern farmer, and African Americans |
| welfare state | a government that assums responsibility for providing for the welfare of children and the poor, elderly, sick, diabled, and unemployed |
| Federal Art Project | provided many jobs for artists |
| mural | painting |
| The Wizard of Oz | a popular movie in the thirties about a girl from the Dust Bowl |
| War of the Worlds | a popular book by H.G. Wells |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | raised prices on foreign imports to such a level that they could not copete in the American market |
| Great Depression | a period in which the economy faltered and unemployment soared |
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