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Chapter 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Herbert Hoover | President Republican candidate in 1928-"a chicken in every pot." |
| Speculation | practice of making high risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits |
| Black Tuesday | Oct.29,1929 when stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash |
| business cycle | periodic growth and contraction of the economy |
| Great Depression | period lasting from 1929 to 1941 which the U.S economy faltered and unemployment soared |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | protective import tax authorized by Congress in 1930 |
| bread line | line of people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies |
| Hooverville | term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression |
| tenant farmer | famers who work for bigger landowners rather than for themselves |
| Dust Bowl | term used for the central and southern Great lains during the 1930s when the region suffered from drought and dust storms |
| Okies | general term used to describe Dust Bowl refugees |
| repatriation | process by which Mexican Americans were encouraged, or forced ,by local, state, and federal officials to return to Mexico during the 1930s |
| localism | policy relied on by Pres. Hoover in the Depression whereby local and state governments act as primary agents of economic relief |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | federal agacy set up by Congress in 1932 to provide emergency government credit to banks , railroads, and other large businsses |
| trickle-down economics | economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers |
| Hoover Dam | dam on the Colorado River that was built during the Great Depression to create jobs |
| Bonus Army | group of WWI veterans who marched at the capitol in 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus promised to them by Congress |
| Douglas MacArthur | General called for by Hoover to remove the veteran marchers out of the city. His troops used tear gas and bayonets. |