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Great Depression
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| New Deal | series of reforms made by FDR. |
| Great Depression | stock market crashed causing banks to close, low economy during the period. |
| Herbert Hoover | president during the beginning of the great depression. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | created the New Deal, President that pull America out of the Great Depression. |
| Surplus | Overstock. |
| Buying on Margin | when a Broker buys stock he only put 10% capital on and the bank covered the rest in a loan. |
| Credit | Buying goods and paying for them a later date. |
| Dust Bowl | raging winds picked up dry, overused soil and blew it all over the country. |
| Bread Lines | how some of families effected by the depression got their food. |
| subsistence farming | growing only enough food for your families necessities. |
| Speculation | buying stock that a person has done little or no research on. |
| Runs on the bank | when the stock market crashed many people rushed to the bank to withdraw all their money and many banks ran out of cash. |
| overproduction | having more product than the demand and prices fall. |
| stock market | place where shares of companies are bought and sold. |
| unemployment | when a person does not have a job that is of age. |