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The Depression
1930s depression
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Undergraduate 1
11/04/2012

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What they called the midwest during the drought in the 1930s
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Dust Bowl
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Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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went to fight in Spanish civil war to fight facists
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Scottsboro boys
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were sentenced to death for crime they didn't commit. Supreme Court overturned the sentence
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Bonus Army
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WW1 veterans who wanted their $1000 payment in 1930s which was supposed to be 1945
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Popular Front
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antifacist movement included communists and socialists
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President at start of depression
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Herbert Hoover
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slums on outside of cities
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hoovervilles
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intereggnum
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time between when Herbert Hoover lost election and inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt
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Famous economist who saw problems as a lack of demand for products being made
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Keynes
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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tariff on agriculture products from Europe
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Agriculture Marketing Act
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buy crops not used to increase price
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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gave loans to railroads, businesses, banks
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