American History Chapter 22

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Hobos

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Many homeless and unemployed Americans began to wander around the country, walking, hitchhiking, or, most often, “riding the rails.” These wanderers, called

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Disposable income

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Identify the expression for excess cash which can be used to purchase non essential products or services.

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Shantytown

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Newly homeless people put up shacks on unused or public lands, forming communities called ____________

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Stock market

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Identify the term for the established system for buying and selling shares of companies

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Federal Reserve

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Identify the government agency which throughout the 1920s kept interest rates low and the ready flow of cash aided speculation

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Bank run

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identify the term that describes what occurs when many depositors decide to withdraw their money at once from a savings institution

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budget deficit

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spending more money than it collected in taxes

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bull market

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identify the expression to describe rising stock prices

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installment plan

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during the 1920s Americans bought high cost items in which they paid for the purchase price by putting down a small down payment and pay the rest on small monthly amounts name this expression

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bailiff

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Court officers called _____ then ejected the nonpaying tenants, piling their belongings in the street

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Black Tuesday

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identify the expression for October 29 in wich prices took the deepest dive

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relief

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money that went directly to impoverished families

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foreclosed

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taking possessions and evicting their families

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margin call

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a demand that the investor pay the loan at once

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Douglas MacArthur

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the army chief of staff who ignored Hoover and drove the bonus army out of Washington

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John Steinbeck

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identify the person who used the novel to evoke both sympathy for his characters and indignation at social injustice. his work the grapes of wrath tells

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Alfred E. Smith

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identify the catholic democrat candidate for president in 1928

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Marlene Dietrich

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European women emerged as superstars. Germany’s ___________ portrayed a range of roles with subtlety

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Grant Wood

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a. identify the person who emphasized traditional American values especially those of rural Midwest and south. his most famous work is American gothic

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Soap opera

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identify the expression for daytime radio shows

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speculation

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buying stock on risk hoping that the stock will continue to go up and not on the companies sales

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Dust Bowl

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when crop prices dropped in the 1920s Midwestern farmers left many of their fields uncultivated and in 1932 a terrible drought struck the great plains identify the expression used to describe the condition of the soil

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margin call

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a demand that the investor pay the loan at once

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Groucho Marx

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comedian who lost his money in the stock market crash

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Tonto

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a fictional character, the Native American assistant of The Lone Ranger, a popular American Western character created by Fran Striker. He has appeared in radio and television series and other presentations of the characters' adventures righting wrongs in 19th century western America.

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Scarlett O’Hara

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the protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind

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American Communist Party

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political party who tried to take over when united states was at its worse