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