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The Great Depression
1930's
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History
8th Grade
04/12/2010

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Corporation
Definition
A business owned by investors who buy part of the company through shares of stock.
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Speculation
Definition
Buying and selling of stock in the hope of making a quick profit.
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Deficit Spending
Definition
To use borrowed money to fund government programs (spending more government money than what the government takes in in tax dollars)
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Fireside Chat
Definition
Franklin Roosevelt's radio broadcasts in which he explained his policies
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New Deal
Definition
President Franklin Roosevelt's programs to fight the Great Depression
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Definition
The Democrat President who created the "New Deal"
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Black Tuesday
Definition
A name given to October 29, 1929 when stock prices fell sharply
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Dust Bowl
Definition
The area of dust/damaged farms across a 150,000sq/mile region during the early 1930's
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The Great Depression
Definition
A period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the U.S. economy was in severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed
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CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps.)
Definition
A part of the New Deal that provided jobs to young men to plant trees, build bridges and parks. They also set up flood control projects.
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Social Security Act
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1935 Set up a system of government money for elderly, unemployed, and handicapped people.
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Herbert Hoover
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Republican President who believed in Laissez-Faire, "rugged individualism," and trickle-down economics
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WPA (Works Progress Administration)
Definition
Employer men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, and airports.
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FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
Definition
Insured savings acounts in banks; approved by the government
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AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)
Definition
TPaid farmers not to grow certain crops (drives up the price)
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