unit 4 Flashcards
1
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The Red Scare v
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- People being afraid of communism and socialism
2
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Main reason - Great depression v
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- Stock market crash
- Hoovers election
3
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Bull v. bear markets v
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- Bull is stocks rizing
- Bear is stocks going down
4
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Margin call v
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- Request for money from a stock broker
5
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Black thursday - Black tuesday v
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- Black Thursday is day that that stocks crashed
- Black tuesday is the second crash: investors lost money
6
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Run on the banks v
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- People tried to withdraw their money from the banks
- Banks collapsed
7
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Credit/Installment v
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- Purchase up front pay later
8
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Hobos v
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- Homeless people
- They would go on rails to get money
9
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Causes of the dust bowl v
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- Soil destroyed
- Human created
- High temperature and wind erosion
10
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Riding the rails v
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- People raiding railroads to find jobs
11
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Bonus army march v
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- Promised a bonus after the war
- millions could no longer provide
- People fearful and go to D.C for money
- Veterans from WW1 that want their money
12
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Repatriation v
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- Raids
- Goal was to get mexicans to loose their jobs for Americans to get jobs
13
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What are things that made president roosevelt successful
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- Had a lot of new deal policies that helped the poor
- He strengthened the national government
- He supported the unions by passing a law that gave unions the right to bargin
14
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What are things that president roosevelt had that went against him
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- Some people thought he expanded the government to much
- A lot of his policy’s were declared unconstitutional
15
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What conditions were in the U.S when FDR became president v
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dust bowl, great depression, red scare
16
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social security
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people getting paid after they are fired and unemployment insurance
17
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NRA v
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national recovery association, helped with unemployment and made new jobs
