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17 Cards in this Set
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price support |
for key products such as wheat |
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Alfred E. Smith |
although economic disaster was around the corner, the election of 1928 took place in a miid apparent. |
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Dow Jones Industrial Averge |
was the most widely used baronmeter of the stock market health |
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Speculation |
people were ingaging in in it and this is ,they bought stocks and bond on the chance of a quick . |
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Buying on Margin |
playing a small percent of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
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Black Tuesday |
the bot tom fell out of the market and the nation's confidence |
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Great Depression |
the period from 1929 to 1940 in which the ecoomy plummeted and unployedment |
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Hawley Smoot Tariff Act |
which established the highest protective tariff in united states. |
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shawtytowns |
little towns consisting of shacks-sprang up |
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soup kittens |
offering free or low cost food |
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bread lines |
or lines of people waiting to receive food provided by charitable |
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dust bowl |
plaugeed by dust storms and evications |
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herbert hoover |
ttried to reassure americans that the nation's economy was on a second footing |
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boulder dam |
hoover was finnaly able to authorize construction |
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federal home loan bank ect |
which lowered mortage rate for hometown owners |
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reconstruction finance coopoeration |
approved by congress in january |
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