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chp 12 gs us vocab

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1. Herbert Hoover republican candidate for president. was an orphan through his childhood but became rich and retired in 1914
2. speculation were too much money is put towards stock
3. Black Tuesday October 29. the stock market collapsed in the great crash
4. business cycle the periodic growth and contraction of the economy
5. Great Depression 1929-1941 were the economy faltered and employment was scarce
6. Hawley-Smoot Tariff a tax on foreign imports were they could not compete with the American market
7. bread line were charities or public agencies would hand out free food to poor families.
8. Hoovervilles makeshift towns built on tents and shacks (homeless people) slept on blankets
9. tenant farmers were farmers stayed on their own land and worked for bigger landowners
10. dust bowl southern great plains that were dry and in a big drought
11. okies dust bowl refugees
12. repatriation were the government tried to encourage or coerce mexicans to move back to mexico
13. localism where problems could be solved by local and state government
14. Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932 the government gave billion dollars of loans to railroads and large business
15. trickle-down economics money at the top of the economic pyramid would trickle down to the bottom
16. Hoover Dam was originally Boulder Dam. was on the Colorado River
17. Bonus Army a bonus congress owed ww1 veterans
18. Douglas MacArthur a man who ordered his troops to use tear gas and fix bayonets on the bonus army protesters
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