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41 Cards in this Set
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Homeless wanders who often rode the rails |
Hobos |
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Investing in the stock market hoping for a quick profit |
Bull market |
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What's the stock market crash was called |
Black Thursday |
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Many depositors withdrawing money at once |
Bank run |
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Stockbroker's demand for immediate repayment of a loan |
The stock market crash |
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Drought related conditions in the Great plains |
Dust bowl |
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System for buying and selling shares on public lands |
Shanty towns |
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System for buying and selling shares of companies |
Stock exchange |
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Migrants headed west in search of better lives |
Okies |
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Buying now and making payments each month |
Installment |
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What religion was Alfred E Smith |
Roman Catholic |
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Before the late 1920s did stock prices generally reflect their true value |
Yes |
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During the Great Depression when a bank collapsed what happened to the depositors money |
Would keep half of the money |
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What is spending more than is collected in taxes called |
Government would kept taxes lower |
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Money that went directly to impoverished families |
Relief |
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Actress who played the heroine in Gone with the wind |
Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable |
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Comic star of stage and screen who was one of the many people wiped out financially in the stock market crash |
Groucho Marx |
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Led the troops that dispersed the Bonus army |
Douglas MacArthur |
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Wrote the grapes of wrath, about a family fleeing the dust bowl |
John Steinbeck |
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Democratic candidate in the 1928 election |
Alfred E Smith |
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First Africa American to win an academy award |
Hattie McDaniel |
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head of the Ford administration during World war one |
Alfred E smith |
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Loss of property due to nonpayment of mortgage |
Foreclosed |
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1928, what factors helped Herbert Hoover when the election |
He ran Ford administration |
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1928 elections, what were some of the major campaign issues |
Religion, prohibition, and economy |
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how did companies help cause the depression |
26,000 business had collapsed |
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why did stock prices declined in the late 1929 |
They hadn't paid back what they borrowed |
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How did the stock market crash hurt the banks? |
It cut back simple and many people lose jobs |
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in the nineteen twenties, how did the federal reserve contribute to the weakness in the stock market |
They kept rates low |
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in search of work or better lives during the depression, many employed people did what |
went to new York city YMCA, which fed them for shelter |
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what was the first feature length animated film |
snow white and the 7 dwarfs in 1937 |
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to pay for public works, the government would have to raise taxes or |
customers would have less money to spend |
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what was the purpose for the reconstruction finance corporation |
to make loans to businesses |
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why did farmers on the great plains begin to lose their crops during the depression |
dry soil and loss of plants do to win because of a dust bowl |
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what did president Hoover hoped publics works would do |
they would build project buildings and to provide jobs |
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How did the national credit card corporation try to rescue troubled banks |
lending money in their communities |
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why did person Hoover opposed direct federal relief to the unemployed |
anyone deserve to have money |
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why did thousands of World war one veterans come to Washington in 1937 |
to watch, Hoover signed the bonus to the army which gave them money |
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Why did the emergency relief and the construction act provide |
loan to the state for direct relief |
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in may of 1932, the Senate voted down a bill that would have financed what |
the reconstruction finance corporation |
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