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The Great Deppression Flashcards

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Bonus army

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  • WWI veterans who were promised a $ bonus in 1945
    -Veterans want it in 1932
  • they go to Washington to camp out
    -Hoover burned the camp down
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The dust bowl:

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-Huge drought In 1931
- new technology: tractors and steel plows

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Bull market:

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Period of rising stock markets

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Herbert Hoover

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  • Wins 1928 election
    -Republican
  • head of food admin in WW1
  • secretary of commerce under Harding and Coolidge
  • finance degree
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