Chapt. 12-13 Vocab
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| show | Engagement in business transactions involving considerable risk but offering the chance of large gains.
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| 2. Black Tuesday | show 🗑
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| 3. Business Cycle | show 🗑
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| show | The economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S., roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s.
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| show | Act that raised prices on foreign imports to such a degree that it could not compete with American made goods.
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| show | Place where people lined up for charities or public agencies to acquire handouts.
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| show | A collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
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| show | A person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce.
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| show | The region in the South central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s. Texas to North Dakota.
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| 10. Okies | show 🗑
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| show | To bring or send back to his or her country or land of citizenship.
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| show | Where problems could be solved by a local or state level.
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| show | Federal agency set up by congress in 1932 to provide emergency government credit to banks, railroads, and other large businesses.
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| show | Economic theory that holds that money lent to businesses and banks will trickle down to consumers.
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| 15. Hoover Dam | show 🗑
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| show | Group of World War I veterans who marched to Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus that was promised to them by Congress.
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| show | Programs and legislation enacted by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery and social reform.
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| show | An informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
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| 19. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | show 🗑
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| 20. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | show 🗑
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| 21. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | show 🗑
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| 22. National Recovery Administration (NRA) | show 🗑
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| 23. Public Works Administration (PWA) | show 🗑
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| 24. Second New Deal | show 🗑
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| show | Key New Deal agency that provided work relief through various public works projects.
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| show | Economic theory that favored public works projects because they put money into the hands of consumers who would buy more goods, stimulating the economy.
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| 27. Social Security Act | show 🗑
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| show | An act of Congress that forbade any interference by employers with the formation and operation of labor unions.
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| 29. Collective Bargaining | show 🗑
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| 30. Fair Labor Standards Act | show 🗑
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| 31. Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) | show 🗑
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| 32. Sit-Down Strikes | show 🗑
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| show | An unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, to validate a number of his New Deal laws.
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| 34. Black Cabinet | show 🗑
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| show | 1930s legislation that provided Indians greater control over their affairs and provided funding for schools and hospitals.
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| 36. New Deal Coalition | show 🗑
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| show | Government that assumes the responsibility for supplying the welfare of the poor, elderly, sick, and unemployed.
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| show | One of the most memorable depression-era films. It promised audiences that their dreams would come true.
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| show | A theater broadcast that was so realistic that people thought Martins were actually invading.
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| show | Division of the Works Progress Administration that hired unemployed artists to create artworks for public buildings and sponsored art education programs and exhibitions.
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| show | A large picture painted directly on a wall or ceiling.
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