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study for End of Coarse exam

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Black Tuesday   10% of the market disappears in 1 day; by November, 1/3 disappears; lead to the Great Depression  
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Bull Market   when the stock market is gaining in positive, people make it  
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Bear Market   when the stock market is declining in negative, people can't make it  
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buying on margin   when a person bought $1000 worth of stock with $100 bought from a stockbroker  
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installment plan   people made payments on goods; caused banks  
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Dust Bowl   a drought doing with overproductiuon of wheat depletion soil that lead to a huge storm, stripping top soil from the Great Plains  
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bank holidays   closed the banks so that people couldn't withdraw money  
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speculation boom   people bought stock on margin and cars on installment entire country's economy; inflation all came crashing down  
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New Deal   Franklin Roosevelt's plan to make the U.S. economy better focused on banking forming relief programs  
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Agricultural Adjustment Act   paid farmers not to produce certain goods, livestock and crops so that the prices would go up  
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Civilian Conservation Corps   men aged 18 to 25 could get jobs planting trade lines, building dams and reservations  
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National Recovery Administration   regulated business by setting the minimum wage, prices, etc.  
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deficit spending   when the goverment spends more money than it takes in taxes  
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Wagner Act   allowed workers to unionize and strike for wages and benefits  
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Tennessee Valley Authority   navigation, flood control, electricity, fertilizing manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley  
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Workers Progress Administration   employed millions of the unemployed to carry out public works projects; renamed Work Projects Administration in 1939; lasted from 1935 to 1943  
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social security   concept that enshrined in Article 22 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights  
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