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Chapter 15 US His.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dow Jones Industrial Average | average of stock prices of major industries |
| black tuesday | october 29, 1929, the day on which the Great Crash of the stock market began |
| Great Crash | the collapse of the American Stock Market in 1929 |
| Business cycle | a span in which the economy grows, then contracts |
| Great Depression | lasted from 1929 until the United States entered WWII in 1941 |
| Hooverville | term used to describe a makeshift homeless shelter during the early years of the Great Depression |
| Dust Bowl | term used to describe the central and southern Great Plains in the 1930s, when the region sustained a period of drought and dust stains |
| penny auction | farm auctions during the Great Depression at which neighbors saved each other's property from foreclosure by bidding low |
| 21st Amendement | constitutional amendement ratified in 1933 to repeal prohibition |
| Hawley-Smooth Tariff | the highest import tax in history, passed by Congress in 1930 |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | gave government credit to a number of institutions |
| Bonus Army | group of WWI veterans and their families who protested in Washington D.C. in 1932, demanding immediate payment of a pension bonus that had been promised for 1945 |