Ch. 11 Vocab
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| 1. Herbert Hoover | Republican candidate for Pres.
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| 2. speculation | high-risk investments in order to gain a large profit
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| 3. Black Tuesday | oct. 29 1929 the stock market fell dramaticly
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| 4. business cycle | periodic growth ad contraction of the economy
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| 5. Great Depression | 1929-1941 when the stock markets crashed the economy fell and people went hungry
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| 6. bread line | places or literal lines where they gave out food to the hungry
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| 7. Hooverville | "towns" of tents, empty railcars or homemade houses made out of scraps grouped together
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| 8. tenant farmer | farmers who work for bigger landowners rather than just for themselves
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| 9. Dust Bowl | TX,OK,KS,NM,, and Co..places where huge sand storms would occur
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| 10. Okies | refugees from the mid west that escaped the sand storms
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| 11. repatriation | process in which Mex. Americans were encouraged, forced by local or state and federal officials to return to Mex. durig the 1930's
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| 12. localism | the policy where problems could be solved on a state or local level
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| 13. Reconstruction Finance Co. | RFC 1932 gave billions of dollars in gov't loans to RRs and large businesses
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| 14. trickle down economics | pyramid illustration that says the money at the top of the economy will trickle down into the bottom
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| 15. Bonus Army | 1931 a group of WWI veterans who came together because the wanted the bonus promised to them by the gov't
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| 16. Hoover Dam | boulder dam, on the Co. river built during Great Depression
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| 17. Douglas MacArthur | general called to send away bonus army
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| 18. Hawley-Smoot Tariff | raised prices on foreign goods 1930
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