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22 Cards in this Set
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installment buying
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"Let's people purchase expensive items such as automobiles and furniture."(pg.612)
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Socialists
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Wanted social and econmical changes.
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Hoovervilles
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"Mocking the president who was blamed for the crisis"(pg.620)
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Dow Jones Industrial Average
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"An average of stock prices of leading industries."(pg.614)
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The Gross National Product (GNP)
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"The total annual values of goods and services a country produces."(pg.616)
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real wages
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"What money could really buy"(Pg. 610)
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Herbert Hoover
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"President of the United States, and they thought the key to sucess was recovery"(pg.629)
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welfare capitalism
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"employers raised wages and provided benifits such as payed vacation,health plans,and English classes."(pg.611)
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21st Amendment
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"Limited the sale of alcohol"(pg.627)
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Father Divine
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"opened soup kitchens that fed hungry thousands every day." (pg.622)
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collateral
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"or security, for loans to buy more stocks."(pg.617)
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speculation
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"taking chances in the stock market."(pg.612)
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buy on margin
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When people paid a part of a stock.
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Scottsboro boys
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Young African Americans who were accused of raping two white woman
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Norman Thomas
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Wanted econmical changes.
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Empire State Building
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"Was the fastest building built of that time, started in 1930."(pg.628)
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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"Highest imported tax in history"(pg.629)
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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"The gov't gave credit to banks."(pg.629)
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John Maynard Keyes
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"Said the gov't spending could collapse the economy."(pg.630)
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Bonus Army
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"soldiers would stay and live in shacks."(pg.630)
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Helped raise the economy
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Helped bring the U.S. to victory."(pg.631)
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