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22 Cards in this Set
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Herbert Hoover
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expressed this confedent and optimism in his inaugaral
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Bull market
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one with an upward trend in stock prices
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bear market
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one with a downward trend in stock prices
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margin buying
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the practise of purchases stocks with borrowed money
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Black Thursday
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October 24, 1929
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Black Tuesday
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october 29
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gross national product
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the total value of all goods and services
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Smoot Hawley Tariff
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congresss continued to pass high tariffs
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buisness cycle
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regular ups and downs of buisness in a free enterprise
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Mutualistas
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to help eachother
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breadlines
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for bowls of soup and pieces of bread given out by charitable orginizations
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shantytowns
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collection of makeshift shelters built out of packaging boxes, scrap lumber, corrugated iron, and other thrown away items
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josefina Fierro de Bright
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fled with her parents from revolution in Mexico to settle in California
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James Hilton
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a weary traveler stumbles upon a peaceful prosperous utopia hidden in the mountains of Tibet
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James T. Farrell
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portrayed the grim life of Chicago Irish Immigrants in his studs Lonigan triolagy
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William Faulkner
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The sound and the fury and as i lay dying whick portrayed tragic events on small town
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rugged individualism
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was that success comes through individual effort and private enterprise
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Andrew Mellon
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argued that the government should keep its hand off the economy
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Reconstruction Fiance Corporation
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created by congress of Febuary 1932
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Bonus Army
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early payment of the pension bonuses owned them for their services
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New york Governor
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelts niece
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