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Great Depression
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History
11th Grade
02/05/2008

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price support
Definition
law that keeps prices above a set level
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credit
Definition
Short-term loans to buy goods with promised to pay later
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Alfred E. Smith
Definition
Democratic presidential candidate in 1928
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Dow Jone Industrial Average
Definition
Index of stock prices of select companies
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speculation
Definition
investments in high-risk ventures
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buying on margin
Definition
buyins stock by paying only a portion of the full cost up-front with promises to pay the rest later
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Black Tuesday
Definition
October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed
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Great Depression
Definition
Period of bad economic times in the United States that lasted from 1929 to 1941
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Hawely-Smoot Tariff Act
Definition
Law that raised taxes on imports & worsened the Depression
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shantytown
Definition
A neighborhood where people live in shacks
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soup kitchen
Definition
Place where free food is served to the needy.
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bread line
Definition
A line of people waiting for free food.
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Dust Bowl
Definition
Area of the Great Plains made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms in the 1930s.
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direct relief
Definition
Money or food given directly from the government to the needy.
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Herbert Hoover
Definition
31st president
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Boulder Dam
Definition
Dam on the Colorado River built during the Depression to create jobs.
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Federal Home Loan Bank Act
Definition
Law passed in 1931 to reduce mortgage rates to save farmers from foreclosure
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Definition
Agency established in 1932 to provide emergency relief to large businesses, insurance companies, and banks.
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Bonus Army
Definition
Unemployed World War I veterans who marched to Washington to demand their war bonuses.
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