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Ch.22 The Great Depression and the New Deal

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    The Great Depression and the New Deal
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  • #40 the highest tariff ever
    Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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  • #39 What is buying "on margin"
    buying stock on credit; buying only part(a margin) of your stock with your own cash and getting a bank loan to buy the rest
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  • #38 What is a "dole"?
    a handout
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  • #37 state with a land boom in the 1920s based on speculation
    Florida
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  • #36 year the stock market crashed
    1929!
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  • #35 What was the only government agency that Hoover set up that gave loans from the government to businesses?
    The Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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  • #34 shanty towns during the Depression
    Hoovervilles
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  • #33 What was the Bonus Army?
    WW1 veterans who marched on Washington D.C. and demanded their bonus early
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  • #32 What date was warning of the coming stock market crash?
    Black Thursday
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  • #31 the name for the Plains in the 1930s during a severe drought
    Dust Bowl
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  • #30 FDR said "The only thing we have to fear is ______________."
    fear itself
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  • #29 disease that paralyzed FDR
    polio
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  • #28 FDR's special way of communicating with the people
    fireside chat
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  • #27 FDR's plan to get out the Depression
    The New Deal
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  • #26 an organization under FDR's New Deal that gave a business a Blue Eagle "seal of approval"
    National Recovery Administration
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  • #25 an organization under FDR's New Deal that did public nature projects in some southern states to provide jobs
    The Tennessee Valley Authority
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