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23 Cards in this Set
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herbert hoover
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president in 1929
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bull market
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one with an upward trend in stocks
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bear market
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one with a downward trend
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margin buying
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the practice of purchasing stocks with borrowed money
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black thursday
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the stock market crashing that led to the great depression
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black tuesday
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october 29 investors dumped stocks into the market and it crashed
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gross national product
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the total value of all goods and sevices produced in a given year
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great deppresion
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a deep economic downturn in the 1930's
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smoot-hawley tariff of 1930
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the highest tariff on inported goods
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busines cycle
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the regular ups and downs of a free-enterprise economy
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mutualistas
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a mexican american society formed to help each other
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breadlines
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food given out to poor people
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shanty towns
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collections of makeshift shelters
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josefina bright
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a mexican activist who grew up in the depression
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james hilton
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wrote the LOST HORIZON
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james farrel
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he wrote a trilogy of books portraying immigrant life
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william faulkner
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wrote the sound and the fury
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rugged individualism
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hoovers idea that sucess came trough hard work
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andrew mellon
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said the govt should stay out of the economy
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RFC
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reconstruction finance corporation
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franklin d rossevlt
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the pres after hoover was a democrat
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bonus army
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WWI vets who wanted payment of service
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eleanor roosevelt
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theordores wife and neice
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