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The Great Depression and NEw Deal 1929-1940
Hoover and the Crash,Roosevelt and the New Deal, Life During the Depression, and The Effect of the New Deal
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History
11th Grade
11/19/2010

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Herbert Hoover
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Secretary of Commerce and became republican candidate for president in 1928
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Speculation

 

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Bought by investors and it was buying and selling stocks in the  hope of making a quick profit
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Buying on Margin
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They Paid a small part of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowed the rest.
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Black Tuesday
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Investors sold 16.4 million shares of stock at prices much lower than they had been selling for a month earlier
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Crash of 1929
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Plunge in stock market price and it was the first event of a terrible economic depression. 
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Great Depression
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Lasted form 1929 to World War II
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Public Works Project

 

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Government-founded projects th build some federal money to give to states, cities, and towns.
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Bonus Army
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When thousands of veterans poured into Washington demanding bonuses they never received 
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Democratic President
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Fireside Chats

 

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A name for Roosevelt's radio broadcasts in which he explained his policies. 
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Hundred Days
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The First hundred days, from March 9 to mid- June 1933, Franklin Roosevelt.
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The law passed during the Hundred Days and had tree major goals

 

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The "Three R's"
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Relief
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for the hungry and jobless
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Recovery
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for agriculture and industry
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Reform
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to change the way the economy worked
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Social Security Act
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A law, passed in 1935, that required workers to and employers to make payments into a fund, from which they dray a pension after they retired. 
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Second New Deal
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A set of programs passed in 1935
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Deficit Spending
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using borrowed money to fund government programs. 
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Dust Bowl
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Dust damaged farms across 150,000-square-mile region. 
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Fist Lady who worked to help poor Americans.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
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A labor organization that broke away from the American Federation of Labor.
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Sit-Down Strike
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The labor movement  used an effective bargaining tactic.
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Liberal
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A person who favors government action to bring about social and economic reform.
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Conservative
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Favors fewer government controls and more individual freedom in economic reform. 
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