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Ch 15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| stock | stock: a share of ownership in a company that can be bought and sold |
| stock market | stock market: a place where stocks are sougnt and sold |
| Great Depression | Great Depression: the Te sos economic crisis that began with the stock market crash of 1929 |
| Prohibition | Prohibition: the period from 1920 to 1933, when the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol was illegal |
| foreclosure | foreclosure a legal process in which a money lender. such as a bank, takes over ownership of a property because the borrower fails to make payments for the property to the lender |
| welfare | welfare: aid in the form of money or necessities for people experiencing financial hardship |
| New Deal | New Deal: the federal programs developed during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency to imorove the economy and provide public relief |