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Chapter 25 The Great Depression
What was the Stock Market Crash? | When people wanted to sell their stocks and prices started to decrease |
What was Margin Buying/Credit/Debt? | Purchasing stocks on credit or with borrowed money |
Speculation | Buying stocks by taking loans to make a profit a gamble |
What was Black Tuesday? | When the Stock Market crashed |
What was the Bonus Army? | Came to take the capital and demand for early payment |
What were Hoovervilles? | Communities for the poor under President Herbert Hoover |
Overproduction | Prices decrease because of too many products |
What was the Bank Holiday? | When Roosevelt would shut down all the banks and fix them and reopen them |
What was Roosevelt's New Deal? | Roosevelt and Congress worked together to create new programs to battle depression and economic recovery |
What was the Brain Trust? | When Roosevelt's professionals created the New Deal |
What were Roosevelt's Fireside Chats? | Radio addresses in which he spoke directly to the American people to gain trust and popularity |
What was Supreme Court Packing? | An attempt to gain supporters for the New Deal |
Alphabet Soup | A set of programs created by Roosevelt and the New Deal, FDIC, CCC helped young men find jobs |
What was the Trickle-Down theory? | Giving the Rich a break to higher workers |
What were the 100 days? | The First 100 days of Roosevelt's term in office |
Deficit Spending | Government goes into debt |
What was the Dust bowl? | A massive group of dust storms sweeping away the Great Plains region |
FDR | Governor of New York who was elected as President |