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22 Cards in this Set
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Herbert Hoover
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President in the 1920's
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Bull Markets
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Market with upward stock
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Bear Market
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Market with a downward trend
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Margin Buying
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The practice of purchasing stocks with borrowed money
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Black Thursday
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The day the stock market crashed- October 24, 1929
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Black Tuesday
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When prices sank down
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Gross National Product
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The total value of all goods
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Smoot- Hawley Tariff
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Protected American industries from inexpensive imports
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Business Cycle
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The regular ups and downs of business
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Mutualistas
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Mutual aid societies in Mexican American societies
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Breadlines
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Where bowls of soup and pieces of bread were given out by charity groups
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Shantytowns
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Collections of makeshift shelters built out of packing boxes
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Josefina Fierro de Bright
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Activist against discrimination
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James Hilton
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Wrote "Lost Horizon
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James T. Farrell
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Wrote the "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
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William Faulkner
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Wrote "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying"
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Rugged Individualism
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Hoover's idea 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 hands off the economy
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Created by Congress in February 1932.
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Bonus Army
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Granted veterans early payment of the pension bonuses owed to them.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New York governor who was the Democrats nominee for the 1932 election
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt's wife
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