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Unit 9 SS Vocab
Unit 9 SS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Recession | economic downturn |
| Gross National Product (GNP) | a nation’s total value of all its goods and services. |
| Productivity | the amount of work each worker does. |
| Installment Buying | when consumers buy products by promising to pay small regular amounts over a period of time. |
| Mass media | forms of communication to reach many people-papers, radios, etc. |
| Expatriate | people who choose to leave America and move to a different country. |
| Speakeasies | illegal bars during Prohibition |
| Evolution | idea that man evolved up through the species |
| Stock Exchange | a system for buying and selling of shares of a corporation. |
| Great Depression | period of economic crisis-1929-1941 |
| Hooverville | shanty-towns where the homeless lived |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans who were jobless, joined together to march on Washington D. C. - demanded bonuses promised by the government. |
| Work Relief | program to give needy people government jobs. |
| Fascist | government by dictatorship - nation first, people second |
| Indian Reorganization Act | 1934- restored tribal government and increased reservation size |
| Pension | payment for older retired people |
| Second New Deal | FDR pushes further for bolder acts and regulations |
| Welfare | government agencies to help out all citizens in need. |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | banned child labor, set minimum wage, 1938 |
| Wagner Act | right for workers to form unions and bargain collectively, 1935 |
| Great Depression (time period) | 1929 - 1941 |
| Indian Reorganization Act (time period) | 1934 |
| Fair Labor Standards Act (time period) | 1938 |
| Wagner Act (time period) | 1935 |