Chapter 26
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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| Taking large risks and hoping to make gains | Speculation
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| paying part of the cost and borrowing the rest from brokers | Buying a margin
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| most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the United States | Black Tuesday
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| Supply is much bigger than demand | Overproduction
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| Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community. | Herbert Hoover
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| - He began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| Longest serving First Lady, an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman | Elanor Roosevelt
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| the historic period (1933-1940) in the U.S. during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented | New Deal
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| help people who confront enormous hardship to recover from disasters and improve the quality of their lives. | Direct Relief
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| series of thirty evening radio addresses given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt | Fireside Chats
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| period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American prairies during the 1930s | Dust Bowl
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| October 24, 1929; almost 13 million shares sold that day alone | Black Thursday
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| closed all banks until gov. examiners could investigate their financial condition; only sound/solvent banks were allowed to reopen | Bank Holiday
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| stretched for blocks outside of soup kitchens, and showed that the average American in the depression was having a hard time even just to eat | Breadlines
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| the farmers, who in the Great Depression, were forced to move, many moved to Oklahoma | Okies
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Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
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You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
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