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The Great Depression

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Assembly Line Manufacturing using a conveyor belt to move materials to workers who stay in one place to work.
Installment buying Paying for items in small monthly payments.
Tariff Tax on imported goods.
Credit An arrangement for delayed payment of loan or purchase.
Flapper A young woman eager to try the latest fashion, dance, or fad.
Prohibition The legal ban of alcohol imposed by the 18th Amendment.
Harlem Renaissance A burst of African American culture during the 1920s and 1930s.
Herbert Hoover The Republican President who failed to halt the Great Depression.
Great Depression The serious and world wide economic decline of the 1930s.
Public Works Government- funded projects to assist individuals, families,and communities in need.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic president who created the New Deal to counter the effects of the Great Depression.
First New Deal 1933-1935 Program created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fight the Depression.
Second New Deal 1935-1937 An extension of Roosevelt’s first New Deal.
Social Security Act A law creating funds for assisting retired workers and the unemployed.
Socialism A group who believes production and distribution should be regulated by the community.
Dust Bowl Region including parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado,and New Mexico in which farms were damaged by dust storms.
Liberal An individual who favors federal government actions to bring about social and economic reform.
Conservative An individual who favors restricted policies in social and economic reform.
Eleanor Roosevelt The wife of FDR who helped him monitor New Deal programs and became a strong voice for women and minorities.
Sit-down strike A union tactic in which workers remained idle in a plant rather than walking out.
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