The Great Depression and the New Deal
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| Assembly line | manufacturing using a conveyor belt to move materials to workers who stay in one place to work
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| Credit | arrangement for delayed payment of a loan or purchase
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| Installment buying | paying for items in small monthly payments
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| Laissez faire | theory that business, if free of government regulation, will act in ways that benefit the nation
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| Speculation | buying and selling risky items in the hope of making a quick profit
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| Tariff | tax on imported goods
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| Great Depression | the serious and world-wide economic decline of the 1930's
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| Public works | government-funded projects to assist individuals, families, and communities in need
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| Stock market crash of 1929 | plunge in stock market prices that market that the beginning of the Great Depression
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| Warren G. Harding | 29th president, served from 1921-1923 with a focus on peace abroad and prosperity at home
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| Calvin Coolidge | 30th president, served from 1923-1929 with a pro-business aim
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| Herbert Hoover | Republican president who failed to halt the Great Depression
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| Deficit spending | using borrowed money to fund government programs
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| Socialism | economic system in which members of a society own businesses equally
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| Dust bowl | Region including parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico in which farms were damaged by dust storms
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| Eleanor Roosevelt | Wife of FDR who helped him monitor New Deal programs and became a strong voice for women and minorities
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| Fireside chats | series of radio talks in which FDR explained his policies in a casual style
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| First New Deal | 1933 - 1935 program created by President Roosevelt to fight the Depression
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| Second New Deal | 1935 - 1937 extension of Roosevelt's First New Deal
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| Social Security Act | law creating fund for assisting retired workers and the unemployed
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Democratic president who created the New Deal to counter the effects of the Great Depression
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