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22 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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One with an upward trend in price
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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 practice of purchasing stocks with borrowed money
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Black Tuesday
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Black Thursday rising interest rates suddenly vegan to sell their shares
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Black Thursday
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October 24 1929
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Gross national product
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Total value of all goods in one year
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Smoot hawley tariff
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Tariff highest in us history
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Business cycle
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Regular up and downs of a business enterprise
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Mutualistas
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Societies that helped others
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Breadlines
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Women waited soup and bread given by charity
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Shantytowns
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Shelter built out of packing boxes
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Josefina fierro de bright
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Fled form Mexico
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James Hilton
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Wrote lost horizon
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James t Farrell
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Early derision offered escape
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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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Individual effort and private enterprise
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Andrew Mellon
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Said the gov should keep its hands off the economy
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Reconstruction finance corporation
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Created by congress in febuary
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Bonus army's
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Unemployed and earlyayment during the war
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Franklin d Roosevelt
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New York gov
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Theodore's niece
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