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chapter12_vocablist
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1.Speculation | practie of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits |
| 2.Black Tuesday | October 29,1926 stock prices fell in the Great Crash |
| 3.Business Cycle | periodic growth and contraction of the economy |
| 4.Great Depression | 1929-1941, US economy faltered and unemployment soared |
| 5.Hawley-Smoot Tariff | protective import tax authorized by Congress in 1930 |
| 6.Bread Line | line of people waiting for food, handouts, and charities |
| 7.Hooverville | term use to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression |
| 8.Tenant Farmer | person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce |
| 9.Dust Bowl | term used for Central and Southern Great Plains during the 30's, the region suffered from drought amd dust storms |
| 10.Okies | term used to describe Dust Bowl refugees |
| 11.Repatriation | Mexican-Americans were encouraged or forced by local, state, and federal officials to return to Mexico during the 30's |
| 12.Localism | policy that relied on Hoover during the depression where by local and state governments act as economic relief |
| 13.Reconstruction Finance Corporation | federal agency set up by Congress in 1932 to provide emergency government credit to banks, railroads, and other large businesses |
| 14.Trickle-Down Economics | economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers |
| 15.Hoover Dam | dam on the Colorado River that was built during the Great Depression |
| 16.Bonus Army | group of WWI veterans tha marched on D.C. in '32 to demand early payment of a bonus promised to them by Congress |