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ChapterTwelve Vocab

Chapter 12 Vocabulary U.S.History

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1. Herbert Hoover: an accomplished public servant who won the 1928 election.
2. speculation: practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits.
3. Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash.
4. business cycle: periodic growth and contraction of the economy.
5. Great Depression: period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the U.S. economy faltered and unemployment soared.
6. Hawley-Smoot Tariff: protective import tax authorized by Congress in 1930.
7. breadline: line of people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies.
8. Hooverville: term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression.
9. tenant farmer: farmers who worked for bigger landowners rather than themselves.
10. Dust Bowl: term used for the central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s when the region suffered from drought and dust storms.
11. Okies: general term used to describe Dust Bowl refugees.
12. repatriation: process by which Mexican Americans were encouraged, or forced, by local, state, and federal officials to return to Mexico during the 1930s.
13. localism: policy relied on by President Hoover in the early years of the Depression whereby local and state governments act as primary agents of economic relief.
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: dam on the Colorado River that was built during the Great Depression.
17. Bonus Army: group of World War 1 veterans who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus promised them by Congress.
18. Douglas MacArthur: hired to remove the Bonus Army from the city.
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