Chapt. 12-13 Vocab
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| show | Engagement in business transactions involving considerable risk but offering the chance of large gains.
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| show | October 29th, 1929. This is the date of the most famous stock market crash in history. The date is considered the beginning of the Great Depression.
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| show | A recurrent fluctuation in the total business activity of a country.
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| show | The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S., roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
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| show | Act that raised prices on foreign imports to such a degree that it could not compete with American made goods.
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| show | Place where people lined up for charities or public agencies to acquire handouts.
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| show | A collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
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| show | A person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce.
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| show | The region in the South central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s. Texas to North Dakota.
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| show | A migrant worker from Oklahoma, especially during the Great Depression.
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| show | To bring or send back to his or her country or land of citizenship.
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| show | Where problems could be solved by a local or state level.
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| show | Economic theory that holds that money lent to businesses and banks will trickle down to consumers.
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| show | Dam on the Colorado river that was built during the Great Depression.
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| 16. Bonus Army | show 🗑
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| 17. New Deal | show 🗑
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| show | An informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
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| 19. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | show 🗑
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| show | Government Agency that built dams in the Tennessee River valley to control flooding and generate electric power.
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| 21. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | show 🗑
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| show | New Deal agency that promoted economic recovery by regulating production, prices, and wages.
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| show | New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs constructing public buildings.
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| 24. Second New Deal | show 🗑
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| 25. Works Progress Administration (WPA) | show 🗑
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| show | A law passed in 1935 providing old-age retirement insurance, a federal-state program of unemployment compensation, and federal grants for state welfare programs.
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| 28. Wagner Act | show 🗑
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| show | Employers had to negotiate with unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions.
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| show | 1938 law that set a minimum wage, a maximum worksheet of 44 hours per week, and a ban of child labor.
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| show | Labor organization founded in the 1930s that represented unskilled labor workers.
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| show | Labor protest in which workers stop working and occupy the workplace until their demands are met.
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| 33. Court Packing | show 🗑
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| 34. Black Cabinet | show 🗑
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| show | 1930s legislation that provided Indians greater control over their affairs and provided funding for schools and hospitals.
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| 36. New Deal Coalition | show 🗑
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| 37. Welfare State | show 🗑
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| 38. The Wizard of Oz | show 🗑
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| 39. War of the Worlds | show 🗑
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| show | Division of the Works Progress Administration that hired unemployed artists to create artworks for public buildings and sponsored art education programs and exhibitions.
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| show | A large picture painted directly on a wall or ceiling.
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