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31 Cards in this Set
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Democratic candidate in 1928
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Alfred E. Smith
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World War I veterans supporting a bill under debate in Congress
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Bonus Army
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Uneven distribution of income
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The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer
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Stock prices declining
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Bear Market
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Stock prices increasing
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Bull Market
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government buys surplus crops at guaranteed prices
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Price Supports
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paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest
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buying on the margin
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a meansure based on the stock prices of 30 representatives large firms on the NYSE
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Dow Jones Industrial Average
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food provided by charitable organizations
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Bread Lines
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world's tallest and second largest
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Boulder Dam
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hardest hit farm drought area of the Great Plain
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Dust Bowl
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October 29, 1929
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Black Tuesday
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period from 1929 to 1940 in which the economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed
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Great Depression
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cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor
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Direct Relief
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1928 Republican candidate for President
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Hebert Hoover
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newspapers
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Hoover Blankets
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buying stocks or bonds on the change of a quick profit
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Speculation
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armed freight yard patrolmen
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Railroad Bulls
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consumers buying now and paying later for purches
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Credit
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the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer
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uneven distribution of income
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transients wandering the country, hitching rides on railroad boxcars and sleeping under bridges
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Hobo
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$500 per WWI veteran to be paid in 1945
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Patman Bill
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commanders of the 1000 man force rousting the WWI veterans in Washington
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Macarthur and Eisenhower
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lower mortage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance their farms
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Federal Loan Home Bank Act
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offered free or low-cost food
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Soup Kitchens
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period of rising stock prices
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Bull Market
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small scrap-material towns
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Shantytowns
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2 billion for businesses that would trickle down to the average citizen
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Reconstruction Finance Corp.
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teenagers zigzagging the country looking for work, adventure and escape from proverty
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Wild Boys
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Designed to protect American farmers anbd manufacturers from foreign competition
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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people should succeed through their own efforts, rather than depend on the government
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Rugged Individualism
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