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1930's (ECOT)
1930's & The Great Depression
Term | Definition |
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Credit | An arrangement for making a purchase with borrowed money, which will be paid at a later date. |
Dust Bowl | A series of dust storms in the 1930s that were caused by massive droughts and decades of inappropriate farming techniques. |
New Deal | A plan, given by President Franklin Roosevelt, intended to bring the country out of the great Depression by providing economic relief, recovery and reform. |
Rugged Individualism | The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own with little or no help from the government. |
Speculation | Making risky purchases on the stock market, in the 1920s, in the chance of quick or considerable profit. |
The Great Depression | The worst economic crisis in US history, where millions of Americans were unemployed, poor, and homeless. |