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chp12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Brittany Hamlin 3rd chp 12 vocab | |
| 1.)Herbert Hoover | an accomplished public servant , Republican |
| 2.)Speculation | practice of making high risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits |
| 3.)Black Tuesday | where stores dropped prices and have a big sale |
| 4.)Business cycle | periodic growth and contraction of the economy |
| 5.)Great Depression | where the economy faltered and unemployment soared |
| 6.)Hawley-Smoot Tariff | raised prices on foreign imports to such a level that they couldn't compete in the American market |
| 7.)Bread Line | where people handed out food from charities or public agencies |
| 8.)Hoovervilles | makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks built on public land |
| 9.)Tentant Farmers | working for bigger landowners rather than for themselves |
| 10.)Dust Bowl | dust storms that started in the southern plains |
| 11.)okies | dust bowl refugees |
| 12.)Repatriation | Mexican Americans were encouraged, or forced , by federal officials to return to Mexico |
| 13.)Localism | policy whereby problems could best be solved at local and state levels |
| 14.) Reconstruction Finance Corporation | federal agency set up by congress in 1932 to provide emergency government credit to banks, railroads and other large businesses |
| 15.)Trickle-down economics | economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers |
| 16.)Hoover Dam | Hoover built a dam on the Colorado River |
| 17.)Bonus Army | group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington to demand early payment of a bonus promised them by congress |
| 18.)Douglas MacArthur | moved the marchers out of the city |