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Unit 7
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Regulation | |
| Unethical | |
| Pardon | |
| Segregation | |
| industrialization | |
| refugee | someone who is forced to leave their country to escape danger |
| stock | a of share ownership in a company |
| topsoil | the part of the soil where most plants gave their roots |
| Hooverville | derisive name for the name of the camps made of cardboard where the homeless live during The Great Depression. |
| New Deal | a series of programs, public work projects, financial ,and regulations enacted by FDR in order to get out of The Great Deoression |
| lobbyist | a person who takes part in an organized attempt to influence legislators. |
| Herbert Hoover | The 31st president of the US (Republican) and was president when The Great Depression began. |
| Franklin D, Roosevelt | The 32nd president of the US (Democrat) commonly known as FDR. He was the only president to serve more than 2 terms |
| ensure | to make something certain or secure |
| expansion | the action of becoming larger or me extensive |
| Dictator | a ruler who has complete control over a country |
| fascism | a system in which the government has complete control over a country. |
| empire | groups of countries united under the power of single ruler |
| alien | foreign-born residents of a country who have not yet become citizens |
| interment | confinement, especially during wartime |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | commonly known as Ike, he was the 34th president of the US (Republican) |
| World War II | |
| radical | departing from tradition; innovative |
| rationing | |
| blackout | |
| bond | |
| diverse | showing a great deal of variety |
| progressives | |
| surplus | |
| erosion | |
| boom and bust cycle | |
| suffrage | |
| prohibition | |
| neutral | |
| impeachment | |
| unethical | |
| depression | |
| The Great Depression | A severe global economic downfall that affected many countries across the world. It started with a sharp decline in the US and lasted for 10 years. |
| pensions | |
| centennial | |
| the Dust Bowl | was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the agriculture of the American prairies during the 1930'. |
| erosion | |
| tenant farmers |
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