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ChapterTwelve Vocab Test

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9. tenant farmer:
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3. Black Tuesday:
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14. Reconstruction Finance Corporation:
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17. Bonus Army:
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10. Dust Bowl:
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18. Douglas MacArthur:
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15. trickle-down economics:
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term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression.
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federal agency set up by Congress in 1932 to provide emergency government credit to banks, railroads and other large businesses.
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October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash.
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economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers.
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hired to remove the Bonus Army from the city.
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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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period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the U.S. economy faltered and unemployment soared.
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group of World War 1 veterans who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus promised them by Congress.
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farmers who worked for bigger landowners rather than themselves.
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an accomplished public servant who won the 1928 election.
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protective import tax authorized by Congress in 1930.
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general term used to describe Dust Bowl refugees.
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dam on the Colorado River that was built during the Great Depression.
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periodic growth and contraction of the economy.
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line of people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies.
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practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits.
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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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policy relied on by President Hoover in the early years of the Depression whereby local and state governments act as primary agents of economic relief.

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