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Chapter 22
Chapter 22
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History
11th Grade
06/01/2008

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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The highest import tax in history
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Hoovervilles
Definition
Shelters for homeless people during the depression
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Business cycle
Definition
A span in which the economy grows, and then contracts
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21st Amendment
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Repealed prohibition in 1933
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Black Tuesday
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The day that the stock market crashed, beginning of the Great Depression
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Dow Jones Average
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Industrial average of the stock prices of major industries
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Dust Bowl
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A nickname for the Heartland during the depression and drought
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Herbert Hoover
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President at the start of the depression, thought that hands-off was better and that the depression would end on its own
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Douglas McArthur
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A general in the army who would later be in charge of the war in Korea
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John Keynes
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A British economist who argued that a government's massive spending to help pull a country out of economic crisis
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Dorthea Lange
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A photographer who documented the Great Depression
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (F.D.R.)
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The President who pulled the U.S. out of the Great Depression
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Wilson Ledford
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Wrote about the effects of the Depression on his family
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Elenor Roosevelt
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Her husband's greatest advisor
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