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YPS-Vocab Page 61
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bonus armys | a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924 |
great depression | the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s. |
dust bowl | the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s |
hooverville | a collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s. |
black tuesday | October 29th, 1929 when the DJIA fell 12% - one of the largest one-day drops in stock market history. More than 16 million shares were traded in a panic selloff. |
great crash | The major declines in economic activity and stock prices that occurred in 1929 and the early 1930s. |
decomposers | soil organism that breaks down the remains of organisms and digests them |