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Brittany Hamlin 3rd chp 12 vocab
1.)Herbert Hoover an accomplished public servant , Republican
2.)Speculation practice of making high risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits
3.)Black Tuesday where stores dropped prices and have a big sale
4.)Business cycle periodic growth and contraction of the economy
5.)Great Depression where the economy faltered and unemployment soared
6.)Hawley-Smoot Tariff raised prices on foreign imports to such a level that they couldn't compete in the American market
7.)Bread Line where people handed out food from charities or public agencies
8.)Hoovervilles makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks built on public land
9.)Tentant Farmers working for bigger landowners rather than for themselves
10.)Dust Bowl dust storms that started in the southern plains
11.)okies dust bowl refugees
12.)Repatriation Mexican Americans were encouraged, or forced , by federal officials to return to Mexico
13.)Localism policy whereby problems could best be solved at local and state levels
14.) Reconstruction Finance Corporation federal agency set up by congress in 1932 to provide emergency government credit to banks, railroads and other large businesses
15.)Trickle-down economics economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers
16.)Hoover Dam Hoover built a dam on the Colorado River
17.)Bonus Army group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington to demand early payment of a bonus promised them by congress
18.)Douglas MacArthur moved the marchers out of the city
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