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20 Cards in this Set
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1. Buying on Margin
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People who invested in the stock market by buying stocks on credit with a loan from a broker.
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2. Great depression
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Serious, global economic decline that began with the crash of the U.S. stock market in 1929
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3. Fireside chats
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio addresses to the American people.
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4. New Deal
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs for helping the U.S. economy during the Great Depression.
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5. Social security Act
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(1935) Legislation that created Social Security, which provides retirement pensions and unemployment insurance to American workers, as well as aid the older Americans and people with disabilities.
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Dust Bowl
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Name given to parts of the Great Plains in the 1930's after a sever drought dried out the region.
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7. Eleanor Roosevelt
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First Lady ( president Roosevelt's wife) fought for minority rights. Supported Marian Anderson a world famous African American Singer.
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8. Totalitarianism
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Political system in which the government controls every aspect of citizen's
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9. Good Neighbor Policy
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's
foreign policy of promoting better relations with Latin America by using economic influence. |
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10. Benito Mussolini
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A leader for Italy after World War I. He was a former Journalist. His followers (Blackshirts) took over Rome, and established a government based on fascism (one leader that controls the state)
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11. Adolf Hitler
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World War I veteran and politician, created a National Socialist Party (Nazis), He became the German Chancellor, he then took power and formed the Third Reich, a hostile new German empire, also creating his own army.
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12. Nazis
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National Social Party, this party was created in 1932 and was created by Hitler.
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13. Axis Powers
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Military alliance formed by Italy and Germany in 1936; later joined by Japan and other countries. Fought against the Allied powers in World War II.
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14. Flappers
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Young women in the 1920's who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior.
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15. Red Scare
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A wave of anticommunist fear that swept the United States after World War !.
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16. American Civil Liberties Union
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Organization formed in 1920 to protect civil rights.
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17. Great Migration
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mass migration of thousands of English people to the Americans that took place between 1630 and 1640. Also the mass migration of thousands of African Americans from the South to the Northern United States during and after World War I.
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19. Bootleggers
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People who smuggled liquor into the United States from Canada and Mexico during prohibition.
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Henry Ford/assembly line
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Helped design the Model T, in 1921 ford was selling more than 1 million cars a yr. His goal was to make one automobile just like another, to do this he equipped his plant with an assembly line, a system of chains slides and conveyor belts. Going from one group to another.
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20. Harlem Renaissance
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Period of great African American artistic achievement in the 1920's; named for the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
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