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33 Cards in this Set
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Sears
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Catalog store
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Automobile
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New Cars
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Modern Women
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Short hair, makeup, short skirts
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Henry Ford
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Assembly line and Ford cars
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Credit
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Buy something with loan (Buy now, pay later)
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Stock Market
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Invest in companies
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Margin Buying
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Getting loan to buy more stock
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Great Migration
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Came to US
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Prohibition
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Alcohol banned
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Al Capone
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Illegal drug and alcohol dealer
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Gloria Swanson
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Actress
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Babe Ruth
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Baseball player
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Coco Chanel
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Clothing designer
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Scott Joplin
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Piano ragtime player
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Charles Lindbergh
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Fly solo across atlantic
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Charlie Chaplin
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Actor in silent movies
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Albert Einstein
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Smart scientist
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KDKA Pittsburgh
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Radio show
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Author
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Roaring 20's
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Successful time, stocks booming. Forgot WW1, go have fun.
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Black tuesday
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Day stock market crashed
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Stock Market Crash
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People stopped investing, lost invested money
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Herbert Hoover
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President during stock crash
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New president, started new deal
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New Deal
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Government interact with people in need
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Works progress Administration
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Build roads and buildings
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Environment projects group
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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Protect flooding
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Fireside Chats
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Communicate via radio that times will get better
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Social Security
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Money put aside from paycheck to help later
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Hoovervilles
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Small village for people who couldn't afford other houses
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Soup kitchen
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Free soup and bread for unemployed
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FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Can't loose money, back up banks
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