Hunt- Chapt 12 &13 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| 1. specualtion | when investors take high risks to make a big profit |
| 2. black tuesday | oct 29, 1929. stock market crashed |
| 3. business cycle | explains periodic growth and contraction of the economy |
| 4. great depression | 1929-1941 where the economy faltered and unemplayment soared |
| 5. hawley-smoot tariff | raised taxes on imports |
| 6. bread line | lines of people waiting for handouts from charities and public agencies |
| 7. hoovervilles | makeshift shantytowns |
| 8. tenant farmers | worked for bigger landowners rather than themselves |
| 9. dust bowl | area of large drought in midwest |
| 10. okies | dust bowl refugees |
| 11. repatriation | encourages mexican immigrants to move back to mexico |
| 12.localism | policy whereby problems could be solved at a local and state level |
| 13.reconstruction finance corporation | gave more than a billion dollars in gov laons to large businesses and RR |
| 14. trickle-down economics | theory that money at the top of the economic pyramid would trickle down to the base |
| 15. hoover dam | dam on the colorado river built during the great depression |
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