Terms

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Buy on margin

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Buy using a loan to pay back later

Question 1

Stock exchange

Answer 1

A place where shares in corporations are brought and sold through an organized system

Question 2

Recession

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A downward turn in business activity

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Depression

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Total economic downturn for many years

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Black Thursday

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Stock market decreased steadily investors sold many shares this day

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Public works

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Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use

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Hawley Smoot Tariff

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Tax on imported goods, Americans bought less of these, foreign countries did this too, foreigners bought less American goods.

Question 7

Hoovervilles

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Poor people live here because of president Hoovers failure to act

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Relief

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Aid for the needy, welfare

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Hundred Days

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Roosevelts proposals for new economic programs

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Fireside Chats

Answer 10

President sat by fire and talked to the people over radio

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Emergency Banking Relief

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Give money to the state for use for helping people in need

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Bonus Army

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Congress had agreed to give each veteran of World War I a bonus jobless veterans wanted their bonuses right away they March 2 DC demanding their money Hoover sent troops to get rid of them scaring America

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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Lent money to local businesses and state or local programs but didn’t like to make loans so it did not work

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New Deal

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Hundred days

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Work Relief

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Programs that gave needy people government jobs

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Civilian Conservation Corps – CCC

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public works - relief

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Federal Emergency Relief Administration – FERA

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Give money to states to provide needy - relief

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Agricultural Adjustment Act – AAA

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Control the agricultural supply and farm prices - recovery

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United States vs Butler

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Court case where butler sue US cuz AAA is unconstitutional

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Tennessee Valley Authority – TVA

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Controls flooding, conservation and electricity -relief and recovery

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National Industrial Recovery Act – NIRA

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Business regulation - recovery

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National Recovery Administration – NRA

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Minimum-wage and abolish child labor - recovery

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Public Works Administration – PWA

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Roads, highways, and public buildings - relief

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – FDIC

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Ensures deposited money in banks - reform

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Securities and Exchange Commission – SEC

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Monitors the stock market - reform

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Pension

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A sum paid regularly to a person, usually after retirement

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Share Our Wealth

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Taxing rich then giving Americans that money to buy homes

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Second New Deal

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The laws passed at this time changed American life even more than the hundred days

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Works Progress Administration – WPA

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Public works - relief

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Social Security Act

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Created a tax on workers to provide monthly pensions for elderly people

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Welfare

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Standard of care, well-being

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Wagner Act

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Aka national Labor Relations act guaranteed workers the right to form unions

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Fair Labor Standards Act

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Banned child labor and set a minimum wage

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Court Packing

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Asked Congress to increase the number of court justices planning to fill the new positions with people who agree with him about the new deal