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The Great Depression Flashcards

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Temporary towns that sprang up in cities across the US

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Shanty towns

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Buying stock with hopes of reward and no thought of risk

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Speculation

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A man walking the city in search of a job with little to no possessions

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Hoboes

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The disaster that struck the Midwest farmers and created black blizzards

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The dust bowl

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The economic philosophy of Herbert Hoover

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Laissez-faire

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The day that started the great depression

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Black Tuesday

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Lines of people waiting for free food

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Breadlines

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The family role that would be focused on taking care of the children and working

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Mother

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The record-breaking storms that destroyed businesses in the north east

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The great flood

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The major government project Hoover supported to provide jobs and power

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Hoover dam

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Thousands of being stuck closed when everyone withdrew money

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Bank runs

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A physical condition in which you lack energy and are in pain because of lack of food

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Malnutrition

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The title of the famous photograph of a P picker displaced to California

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Migrant mother

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The name of the man who wrote the song about Okies traveling along route 66

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Woody Guthrie

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The term for the group of World War I veterans who pressured Hoover to pay them in 1932

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The bonus army

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What the Federal Reserve did that cause less money to be in circulation

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Raised discount rates

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The unemployment rate was never lower than this number

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20%

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The problems teenagers faced during the Great Depression

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Lack of education, malnutrition, college dropouts, and ran away

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The state that thousands of Americans such as our migrant mother settled in during the 1930s

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California

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The term for the government spending more money than they make in revenue

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Deficit spending

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The terrace that raised prices on imported goods

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff

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Losing your home because you can’t afford to pay the mortgage

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Foreclosure

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The state and local program that provided food and money to the poor

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Public assistance

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The collection of laws and policies that FDR used to expand the role of government

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The new deal

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FDR is liberal or conservative

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Liberal

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Hoover is liberal or conservative

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Conservative

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Drought

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Lack of rain for Summers

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Desertification

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Land becomes increasingly desert-like

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Depopulation

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  • 30,000 people left the region

- Black blizzards

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Okies (route 66)

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New California residents who left home along route 66 after the dust bowl

30
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Great flood of 1936

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Flood in the north east that resulted in a series of record-breaking storms

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