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16 Cards in this Set
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Auditor |
A person who checks business records |
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City Machine |
A group of people who control how a city is run |
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New Deal |
The plan Roosevelt promised the people |
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Shanty |
A house that is pieced together with scraps of metal, wood, and cardboard |
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Speculate |
To buy stocks and then sell them as soon as the price goes up |
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Tariff |
A tax against goods that are shipped into a country |
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Unemployment |
The condition of wanting and needing a job but being unable to find one |
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Food |
Hoover headed the efforts to provide food for the people in Belgium during World War I |
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New Inventinos |
Americans thought the economy would keep growing after Black Tuesday because of all the new inventions being sold |
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Black Tuesday |
The biggest crash in American history happened on Black Tuesday in 1929 |
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Great Depression |
Hoover's plan to raise taxes did not help overcome the Great Depression |
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Less |
Roosevelt asked Congress to pass a bill that paid farmers to plant less |
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Bank Holiday |
To stop runs on banks, Roosevelt declared a bank holiday |
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Work Projects |
Roosevelt gave his supporters work projects in exchange for their votes |
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Farm Bill |
The Farm Bill caused land owners to no longer need sharecroppers |
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Government |
In a welfare state the responsibility for the peoples' well being belongs to the people |
