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Government buys surplus crops at guaranteed prices and sells on world market

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Price supports

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An arrangement in which on consumers can buy now, and pay later

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Credit

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Little towns consisting of shacks

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Shantytowns or Hoovervilles

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Paying a small percentage of stock, and borrowing the rest

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Buying on margin

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Buying stocks and bonds in hope of profit – ignoring risks

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Speculation

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The date when the market plunged

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October 29th, 1929

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The bottom fell out of the market in the nation’s confidence also known as October 29 of 1929

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Black Tuesday

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From 1929 to 1941 economy plummeted and unemployment went up

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Great depression

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9
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Establish the highest protective tariff in US history

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Hawley – Smoot tariff act

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10
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Major drought affected Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado

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Dust bowl

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Offering free or low-cost meals

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Soup kitchens

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12
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Of people waiting to receivefood provided by charitable organizations

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Breadlines

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300,000 transients wandered the country riding railroad boxcars and sleeping under bridges

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Hoboes

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money or food given directly from the government to the needy

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Direct relief

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15
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Well known photographer

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Gordon Parks

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16
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What did farmers do during the Great Depression?

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They grew more livestock and crops

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17
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What signaled the Great Depression?

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Superficial Prosperity

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18
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What industries were not needed anymore?

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Railroad, Mining, automobiles, construction, production of consumer goods and lumbering

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What struggled the most during the Great Depression?

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Agriculture

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20
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Helped farmer,like welfare does now

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McNary Haugen Bill

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21
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What bill did Coolidge veto twice?

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The Mcnary Haugen Bill

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22
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What was the effect of people having less money to spend?

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They bought a lot less

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23
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What was bad about credit?

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It put people in debt because they didn’t have money to pay it back

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What happened to the uneven distribution of income?

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Rich became richer/ poor became more poor

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25
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What percent of American earned less than $2500 a year?

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70%

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26
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What percentage of Americans income rose?

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1%

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27
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How many houses were able to have a furnace or electric lights?

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1/2 the houses in America

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Who was the election of 1928 between? Who won?

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Herbert Hoover and Alfred Smith/ Hoover won

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29
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Who was Hoover before the election?

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Secretary of commerce under Harding and Coolidge

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30
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Who was Alfred Smith before the election?

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Politician in New York

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31
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The measure bases on stock prices

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Dow Jones

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32
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Period of rising stock prices

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Bull market

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33
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What percentage of Americans owned stocks?

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3%

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34
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When did the stocks fall and rise again?

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Spetember 29,1929

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35
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What happened when stocks fell for the first time?

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Investors sold their stocks

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36
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How many stocks were sold in October 1929

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16.4 million

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37
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How much money did investors lose?

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$30 billion

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38
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What did people do when banks were failing?

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Withdrew money from their banks

39
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How many banks closed in 1929?

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600

40
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How many banks closed in 1933?

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11000

41
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How many businesses went bankrupt?

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90,000

42
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How many people were unemployed?

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25%

43
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What other countries had problems in 1929?

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Germany

44
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Where did people who loss their homes live?

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In parks/ sewers

45
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How did homeless keep warm?

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Covering in old newspaper

46
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How did Blacks, and Latinos suffer?

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Unemployment/ low wages/ racial violence

47
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How many blacks were killed by lynching?

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24

48
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How did Mexicans leave the country?

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They were either deported or led volunterily

49
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Advantages of the rural life:

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Farmers were able to grow crops

50
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How many farmers went through foreclosure?

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400,000

51
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Effects of drought:

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Crops didn’t grow and there were not any trees or grass

52
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Where did farmers in the rural areas travel to?

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On Route 66, to California

53
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What struggles did children have?

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Bad health
No welfare
Little school
Left hometown “wild boys”

54
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Boy who rode the rails and explored America freely from ages 11-17

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George Phillips

55
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How many kids were killed on trains? Injured?

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Killed- 24,647

Injured- 27,171

56
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What was the suicide rate?

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30%

57
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How many more people were admitted to mental hospitals?

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3 times more people

58
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People stopped going to..:

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The doctor and dentist

59
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How many schools closed in 1929?

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2,600

60
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People who left The dustbowl to find work in the west

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Okies

61
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Created specifically to provide jobs, education, counseling, and recreation for young

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National youth administration

62
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Reestablish the NIRA provision of collective-bargaining

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Wagner act

63
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Created by committee chaired by secretary of labor Frances Perkins. Stated old age insurance for retirees 65 or older and their spouses, unemployment compensation system, aid to families with dependent children and the disabled

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Social Security act

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America’s first female cabinet member

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France’s Perkins

65
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Educator who dedicated herself to promoting opportunities for young African-Americans

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Mary Mikell McLeod Bethune

66
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Commissioner of Indian affairs

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John Collier

67
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And alignment of diverse groups dedicated to supporting the Democratic Party

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New Deal Coalition

68
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The most famous film of the era

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Gone with the wind

69
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And actor, director, producer, and writer creative one of the most renowned radio broadcast of our times, “ The war of the worlds”

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Orson Welles

70
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Painter of American Gothic

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Grant wood

71
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An African American author, complete his acclaimed novel native son

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Richard right

72
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John Steinbecks famous book

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Grapes of wrath

73
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Who struggled the most during the Great Depression

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Industries and farmers

74
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What wasn’t needed anymore

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Railroads, mining, lumbering

75
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What percentage of people didn’t have a job

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1/4

76
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5 causes of the Great Depression

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Stock market crash, bank failures, reduction in purchasing abroad, American economic policy with Europe, drought conditions

77
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What was emphasize on the American family

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Family time

78
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Children hardships during the Great Depression

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Bad health problems, little milk consumption, child welfare was gone, School was shortened

79
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Children that guy don’t trains to search for new life were called

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Wild boys

80
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What was the government chief job

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Faster cooperation between competing groups an interest in society

81
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What was required and died by Americans people succeed without the government help

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Rugged individualism

82
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What did Hoover oppose

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Direct relief and welfare

83
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What was over $700 million project in order to minimize federal intervention

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The building of the border dam

84
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Did the Hoover dam provide

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Electricity, flood control, and supply of water

85
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How did farmers express their anger

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They sold their crops at low prices, burned their corn and wheat, and dumped milk on the highway. They refuse to work on “farm holiday” and blocked roads to the market

86
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What was the name of the empty pockets inside out

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Hoover flags

87
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What intended to re-scrap prices by helping members to buy crops and keep them off the market until markets rose

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Farm board

88
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Lowered mortgage rates and allowed farmers to re-finance their farm loans to avoid foreclosure

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Federal home loan Bank act

89
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The 10,000 to 20,000 WW1 vets and their families that came to DC

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The bonus army

90
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Who was the bonus army led by

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Walter waters

91
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Authorize the government to pay the World War I that you were not compensated for their service

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Patman Bill

92
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Who did Hoover think the bonus army was

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Communists and criminals

93
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Who were the 1000 soldiers under control

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General MacArthur

94
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Who won the election between Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt

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Roosevelt

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