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| A long period of rising stock prices |
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| Buying stocks at great risk with the anticipation that the price will rise |
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| Shantytowns built by hobos during the Great Depression, nicknamed after president Hoover |
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| time period of severe dust storms causing majot ecological and agriculture damage |
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| First 100 days when FDR was in office when he made the plan for the New Deal |
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| FDR's most trusted advisers |
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| Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use |
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| Government practice of spending birriwed money rather than raising taxes. An attempt to boost the economy |
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| Radio broadcasts made by FDR to the American people to explain his intiatives |
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| When investors pay a part of stock and then borrow the rest from their broker who borrow it from banks. |
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| Causes of The Great Depression |
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| Over production, banks loaning money to unreliable people, risky investments stock market crash, speculation, too much confidence in the market |
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| WWI veterans who protested in Washington D.C for their Bonuses early |
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| Roosevelt's plan to bring in more supreme court justices to get the court into his favor |
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| Progrma to reduce Agriculture by paying famers to reduce their crop area in hope to higher prices |
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| Independent Agency that insured bank deposits up to $2,500 |
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| Enforced federal security law and regulated securities industry |
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| Program that provided flood conrol and built dams |
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| Employed millions of youngmen to help consturct buildings and plant trees |
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| Strengthened the federal reserve |
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| program that constructed schools, hospitals, railroads and highways |
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