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The 20th Century
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Boll Weevil | from Mexico; destroyed the cotton and caused a drop in cotton prices |
| Drought | very little or no rain |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | spoke the 1933 inaugural speech about the Great Depression |
| President Herbert Hoover | his polocies were blamed for the Great Depression |
| New Deal | bought about economic recovery;relieved suffering of the unemployed |
| strike | refusing to work until certain demands are met |
| minimum wage | the least amount of money you can pay per hour working for a job |
| Bell Aircraft | a plant that built B-29 bombers in Marietta, GA |
| NIRA | the New Deal that didn't work |
| Savannah and Brunswick Shipyards | the place where ships were built |