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15 Cards in this Set
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Buying an margin |
Purchasing stocks by only paying a small part first then borrowing the rest |
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Black Tuesday |
On October 29,1929 was when stocks decreasedgre |
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Great depression |
On 1929 to 1940 the U.S economy was really bad and a lot of people became unemployed |
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Shantytowns |
It's a neighborhood where people lives in shacks |
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Bread lines |
Where a line of people waited for food |
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Dust bowl |
Due to droughts and storms farming in these areas weren't fertile in Oklahoma , Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico |
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Direct relief |
It's when the government gave food to poor people |
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Bonus army |
In ww1 1932 a group of veterans and families marched in Washington D.C because they wanted there bonus the were promised for there military service |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Served in 1933 to 1945 president |
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New deal |
Roosevelt made a program to help because of the Great Depression happened and wanted to focus on the real problems about the poor , economic recovery and money wise |
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Hundred days |
Franklin Roosevelt Put in a lot of laws to get America back On track and got people jobs |
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Federal deposit insurance corporation |
In 1933 an agency was created to make sure that people's bank accounts were safe regardless if the bank went into for closure |
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Agriculture adjustment |
A law in 1933 to raise crop prices and paying farmers to leave some of their unplanted by that lowering production |
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Civilian conversation corps |
Was an agency that was a new deal and put young men to work by either building roads or parks and planting trees and helping erosion control and flood control ( city people) |
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War powers act |
A law in 1973 that limited presidents rights to send troops into battle w out Congress's say |
