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CHAPTER TEST 12/13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dust Bowl | -Farmers came here for growing crops. -Intense dust storms -Drought -Drought caused no crop production, so no money for banks. |
| Business Cycle | Cycle where business prices move with economy. |
| Tenant Farmers | Other farmers work on other farmers land because they can't own there own. |
| Trickle-down eco. | theory where money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers. |
| Huey Long | Senator of Louisiana Wanted to "share" Assassination because of that ^ Also known as "king fish" |
| Black Tuesday | Oct. 29th 1929-the day the stock market crashed. |
| Emergency Banking Bill | created by FDR Close down old ruined banks and create new ones. |
| SEC (security and exchange) | created to look over the stock market |
| AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) | Raised food prices while lowering supply gov. paid farmers to not grow crops. |
| Social Security | law that set up a pension system for the retired, established unemployment insurance, made insurance for victims of work-related accidents; provided aid for poverty-stricken moms and children, the blind and the disabled. |
| REA (Rural Electrification Admin) | Brought electricity to farms and rural areas. |
| Wagner Act | replaced NIRA protected right to join unions prohibited unfair labor practices |