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U.S. History Exam
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History
11th Grade
05/21/2012

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Herbert Hoover
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former secretary of Commerce and Republican candidate for President in 1928 

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speculation
Definition
risky stock purchases made by investors with the hope of high returns
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tenant farmers
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agricultural workers who work on land owned by someone else
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trickle-down economics
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the theory that money inveested in banks and businesses will work its way through the system to laborers
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bonus army
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veterans who marched to demand payment of money promised by congress
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black tuesday
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the occasion of the stock market crash
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business cycle
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the periodic expansion and contraction of the economy
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repatriation
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government efforts to pressure Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico
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Douglas MacArthur
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general who dispersed protestors by ordering federal troops to fire on them with tear gas
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okies
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dust bowl refugees made by investors with the hope of high returns
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speculation
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risky stock purchases made by investors with the hope of high returns
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