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chapter 12 vocab. :]
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.Herbert Hoover: | public servant - to run for the white house. |
| 2.speculation : | practices 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 concentration of the economy. |
| 5.Great Depression : | period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the U.S. economy faltered and unemployment. |
| 6.Hawley-Smoot Tariff: | protective import tax authorized by congress in 1930. |
| 3. black Tuesday : | line of people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies. |
| 8.Hooverville: | term used to describe makeshift shanytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression. |
| 9.tenant farmer: | workers working for bigger landowners than than for themselves. |
| 10.dust bowl : | term used for central and southern Great Plains during the 1930's when the region suffered from drought and dust storms . |
| 11.Okies: | general terms 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 1930's. |
| 13.localism: | policy relied on by president Hoover in the early years of the Great Depression whereby local and state governments act as a primary agents of economic relief. |
| 14.RFC: | federal agents 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: | general |