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Ch13 Lesson3 VOCAB
Term | Definition |
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Great Depression | A long and severe decline in the economy that existed from 1929 until the early 1940s. |
unemployment | The condition of being out of work. |
stock market | Central location where people buy and sell stocks in companies. |
credit | Borrowed money. |
tariff | A tax on imports. |
Dust Bowl | During the 1930s, the name for the area of the Great Plains where drought and damaging farming practices had turned topsoil into infertile dust. |