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18 Cards in this Set
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Deficit Spending
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to use borrowed money to
fund government programs. |
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Second Deal
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a set of programs passed in
1935 to fight the Great Depression. |
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Dust Bowl
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the area of dust-damaged farms across
a 150,000-square-mile region during the early 1930s. |
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Crash of 1929
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the plunge in stock market prices.
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Sit-down strike
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a strike in which workers remain
idle inside the plant or factory. |
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Liberal
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a person who favors government action to
bring about social and economic reform |
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New Deal
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President Franklin Roosevelt’s programs
to fight the Great Depression. |
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Securities and exchange Commission
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an agency
that watches the stock market and makes sure companies follow fair practices for trading stocks. |
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Hundred Days
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in his first hundred days, from
March 9 to mid-June 1933, Franklin Roosevelt sent Congress many new bills. |
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Bonus Army
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in 1932, thousands of veterans
streamed into Washington demanding bonuses that they never received. |
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Buying on margin
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to pay a small part of a stock’s
price and then borrow money to pay for the rest. |
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Great Depression
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a period, lasting from 1929 to
1941, in which the U.S. economy was in severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed. |
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Social Security
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a law, passed in 1935, that
requires workers and employers to make payments into a fund, from which they draw a pension after they retired. |
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F.D.R
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Franklin Denalo Roosevelt our 32nd president who pulled us out of the depression.
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E.R
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The wife of FDR
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Okies
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A term to refer to people who had to leave because of the Dust Bowl.
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National Labor Relations Board
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Agricultural price supports
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