The Great Depression Begins
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| speculation | buying stocks and bonds on the chance of earning a quick profit
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| buying on margin | paying a small part of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest of the money
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| Black Tuesday | the day the bottom fell out of the Stock Market
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| Great Depression | period from 1929 to 1940 in which the economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed
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| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | highest protective tariff in U.S. history; helped bring on the Depression
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| shantytowns | little towns consisting of shacks built by people forced out of housing by lack of money in the Depression
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| Soup Kitchens and Bread Lines | food giveaways from private charities that were the only means of sustenance for many Depression-Era people
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| Dust Bowl | region in the American West and Midwest hit hardest by drought in the 1930s
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| direct relief | cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor
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