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| Dow Jones Industrial Average |
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| measure of average of stock prices of major industries |
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| October 29, 1929, the day on which the Great Crash of the stock market began |
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| The collapse of the American stock market in 1929 |
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| periods in which a nation's economy grows, then contracts |
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| the most severe economic downturn in the nation's history, which lasted from 1929 to 1941 |
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| term used to describe a makeshift homeless shelter during the early years of the Great Depression |
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| term used to describe the central and southern Great Plains in the 1930s when the region substained a period of drought and dust storms |
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| farm auctions during the Great Depression at which neighbors saved each other's property from foreclosure by bidding low |
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| a Constituional amendment passed in 1933 that repelled Prohibition |
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| the highest import tax in history, passed by Congress in 1930 |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
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| corporation set up by President Hoover in 1932 to give government credit to a number of institutions, such as large industries, railroads and insurance companies |
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| a group of World War I veterans and their families who protested in Washington, D.C. in 1932, demanding immediate payment of a pension bonus that had been promised for 1945 |
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