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21 Cards in this Set
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Herbert Hoover
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president
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Bull market
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upward stock market
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bear market
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down stock market
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margin buying
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borrowing money through credit
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Black Thursday
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all shares sold
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Black Tuesday
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stock market actually crashes
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Gross National Product
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how much a county sells
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Great depression
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no money in the country
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Smoot- Hawley Tariff
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highest tariff in history
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Business Cycle
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the regular ups and downs of a free enterprise company
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Mutalistas
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Mexican American communities.
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Breadlines
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lines out of soup kitchens
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Shanty Towns
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makeshift shelters made out of any thing people can find.
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Josefina Fierro de Bright
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fled mexico
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James Hilton
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wrote the lost horizon
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James T. Farrell
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portrayed grim life for chicagos Irish
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William Faulker
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wrote the sound of fury
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Rugged Individulism
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individual effort in a private enter price
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Andrew Mellon
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argued that the gov. shoud keep its hands off of the economy
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FDR
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New deal president
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Elenor Rosevelt
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FDR's wife
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