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