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Chapter 25 Vocab Flashcards

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Purchasing stocks on credit, or with borrowed money

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Buying on margin

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People wanted to sell their stocks, and so few wanted to buy, stock prices collapsed

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Black Tuesday

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Up and down pattern

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Business cycle

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Downturn of the economy and was very long

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Great Depression

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When WWI veterans and families came to the capital to demand early payment of a military bonus

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Bonus army

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Provided aid for the government

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Franklin D Rosevelt

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Rosevelt and congress worked together to create new programs to battle the depression and aid economic recovery

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New deal

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Radio addresses in which he spoke directly to American people

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Fireside chats

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Hired people to build dams and generators, bringing electricity and jobs to communities in the Tennessee river valley

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Tennessee valley authority

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Nations fist women cabinet member

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Frances Perkins

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Active supporter of the new deal programs

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Passed in 1935, provided some financial security for the elderly, disabled, children, and unemployed

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Social security act

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New union that organized workers into unions based on industry, not skill level

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Congress of industrial organizations

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When workers stayed in he factories so they could not be replaced by new workers

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Sit-down strike

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Massive dust storms swept the region, turning part of the Great Plains

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Dust bowl

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Educator and leader who rose to national prominence during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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Author who was greatly affected by the Great Depression

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John Steinbeck

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Oklahoma- born folk singer who crisscrossed the country singing his songs of loss and struggle

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Woody Guthrie

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Put in place

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Implement

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Right to do something

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Authority

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