The Great Depressesion 1928-1932
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| 1. Speculation | Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits
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| 2. Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929 when stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash
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| 3. Business Cycle | Periodic growth and contraction of the economy
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| 4. Great Depression | Period lasating from 1929 to 1941 in which the U.S. economy faltered and unemployment soared
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| 5. Hawley-Smoot Tariff | Protective import tax authorized by Congress in 1930
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| 6. Bread Line | Line of people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies
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| 7. Hooverville | Term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression
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| 8. Tenant Farmers | Working for bigger landowners rather than for themselves
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| 9. Dust Bowl | Term used for the central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s when the region suffered from drought and dust storms
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| 10. Okies | General term used to describe Dust Bowl refugees
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| 11. Repatriation | Process by which Mexican Americans were encouraged, or forced, by local, state, and federal officials to return to Mexico during the 1930s
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| 12. Localism | Policy relied on by President Hoover in the early years of thte Depression whereby local and state governments act as primary agents of economic relief
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| 13. Reconstruction Finacne Corporation | Federal agency set up by Congress in 1932 to provide emergency government credit to banks, railroads, and other large businesses
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| 14. Trickle-down economics | Economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers
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| 15. Hoover Dam | Dam on the Colorado River that was built during the Great Depression
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| 16. Bonus Army | Group of World War 1 verterans who marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus promised them by Congress
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