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21 Cards in this Set
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put down percentage of stock
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Buying on Margin
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wrote: How to Win Friends and Influence People (book)
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Dale Carnegie
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president that helped America out of the Depression
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Franklin Roosevelt
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President during the depression, not very compassionate
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Herbert Hoover
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9 African American teenagers were accused of raping 2 white women on a train...eventually appealed and the men only got sentences
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Scotsboro Case
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people that treveled from the Oklahoma Area to California to find jobs
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Okies
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Veternas that traved to Washington DC to got the bonus from serving in WWI
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Bonus Army
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Day that the stock market crashed
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Black Tuesday
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put a minimum on how much the crops cost
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Agricultural Marketing Act
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Shanty-Towns that the poor lived in during the Depression
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Hoovervilles
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"Smartest Dummy in the World" famous radio personality
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Charlie McCarthy
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Dust blowing around everywhere..ruined crop production...massive drought
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Dust Bowl
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Took pictures of Hoovervilles
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Dorthea Lange
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The country goes poor and millions of people are laid off
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Depression
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Favorite movie of American people; 4 hours long; in color
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Gone With the Wind
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Most famous child star during the 1930's
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Shirley Temple
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having your white pockets hangin out; showing you were broke
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Hoover Flags
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newspapers that the poor put over themselves
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Hoover Blankets
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Folk singer that wrote This Land is Your Land; This Land is My Land
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Woody Guthrie
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famous book about the Depression; later made into a movie; written by John Steinbeck
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Grapes of Wrath
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Was put in by Hoover to try and regain confidance in the Banking System
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Reconstruction Finance Corp
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