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11 Cards in this Set
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Stock
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Shares in a business ownership whose price and value constantly fluctuate.
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Speculation
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A way of gambling with short term investments
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Margin
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Paying only a fraction of a stock's dollar value
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Depression
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A period of severly reduced economic Activity
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Foreclosure
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The bank would take back ownership of a property without letting the farmer pay off the rest of the mortgage
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Repatriation
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return to former home-land
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Penny Auctions
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Staged sales of property for pennies, to friends who would simply return it to the original owners later
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Okies
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Great Plain farmers that headed West to search for a better life
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Hoovervilles
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Temporary shelters; They were dirty, people ate garbage scraps for food.
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Douglas MacArthur
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Army chief that was placed incharge of dispanding protesters
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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President after hoove, Saves the Economy
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