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23 Cards in this Set

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Herbert Hoover
President
Bull market
A market with an upward trend in stock prices
Bear market
A market with a downward trend in stock prices
Margin buying
The practice of purchasing stocks with borrowed stocks
Black Thursday
The stock markets crashes
Black Tuesday
Prices sank to a shocking new low when panicked investors dumped their stocks
Gross national product
The total value of all goods and services produced in a given year
Great Depression
Deep economic downturn from 1929 until the beginning of WWII
Smoot Hawley Tariff
High tariff
Business cycle
The regular ups and sown of business in a free enterprise economy
Mutualistas
Mexican americans communities
Breadlines
Lines of people waiting for bowls of soul and pieces of bread given out by charitable organizations
Shawntytowns
Collections of makeshift shelters built out of packing boxes, scrap lumber corrugated iron, and other throw away items
Josefina Fierro de Bright
Activist for mexican americans
James Hilton
Wrote lost horizon 1933
James T Farrell
Studs lonigan trilogy
William Faulkner
The sound and the fury 1929 and as i live dying 1930, which portrayed tragic events in small town mississippi
Rugged individualism
Success comes through individual effort and private enterprise
Andrew Mellon
Sec of treasury that argued that the government should keep its hand off the economy
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Authorized the RFC to lend up 2 billion dollars of taxpayer money to stabilize troubled banks, insurance companies, railroad companies, and other institutions
Bonus Army
Granted veterans early payment of the pension bonuses owed them for their service during the war
Franklin D Roosevelt
New york governor candidate
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR's wife and cousin