Chapter 12 Vocab
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| speculation | practice of making high risk investment to get large profits
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| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929 when stock prices feel sharply in Great Crash
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| business cycle | periodic growth and contraction of the economy
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| Great Depression | 1929 to 1941 the U.S. economy faltered and unemployment soared
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| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | protective import tax by congress 1930
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| bread line | line of people waiting for food handouts from charties
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| Hooverville | describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people
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| tenant farmer | work for bigger landowners
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| Dust Bowl | central and southern great plains in 1930s when region suffered from drought
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| Okies | describe Dust Bowl
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| repatriation | Mexicans Americans were forced to return to Mexico
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| localism | local and state governments act as a primary agents of economic relief
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| Reconstruction Finance Corpoation | 1932 provide emergency government credit to banks, railroads, and other large business
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| trickle-down economics | economic theory that holds money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down
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| Hoover Dam | dam on colorado river built during great depression
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| Bonus Army | group of WWI veterans who marched to demand early payment of a bonus promise
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