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gross national
product
total value of goods and
services produced in a
nation during a specific
period
noun
specific
particular
adjective
Herbert
Hoover
Republican candidate
who easily won the
presidential election of
1928
proper noun
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buying on
margin
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buying stocks with
loans from stockbrokers
verb
Federal
Reserve
System
serves as the nation’s
central bank; sets
policies to regulate the
nation’s money supply
proper noun
Black
Tuesday
the stock market
collapse on October 29,
1929
proper noun
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jobless, homeless
wanderer during the
Great Depression
hobo
noun
Great
Depression
the most severe
economic downturn in
the history of the United
States
proper noun
asset
financial holdings or
resources
noun
foreclosure
noun
occurs when a lender
takes over ownership of
property from an owner
who has failed to make
loan payments
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Hoovervilles
proper noun
drought
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sprawling
neighborhoods of
shacks named for
President Hoover,
whom many blamed for
the Great Depression
period of below-average
rainfall
noun
Dust Bowl
proper noun
Okie
parts of Oklahoma,
Kansas, Colorado, New
Mexico, and Texas that
were hardest hit by
years of dust storms
insulting term for a
migrant from the Great
Plains
proper noun
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plight
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bad situation
noun
singer-songwriter whose
songs about the Dust
Bowl describe the
disaster’s effect on the
people it touched
Woody
Guthrie
proper noun
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associative
state
President Hoover’s term
for his vision of
voluntary partnership
between business
associations and
government
noun
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dam built in the
Colorado River by
private companies with
funds provided by the
Federal government
Hoover
Dam
proper noun
cooperative
noun
Reconstruction
Finance
Cooperation
an organization owned
and controlled by its
members who work
together for a common
goal
federal agency that
loaned money to banks
and other struggling
institutions during the
Great Depression
proper noun
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clause
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separate section of
writing
noun
SmootHawley
Tariff Act
new tax that raised the
cost of imported goods
for Americans, making
them more likely to buy
cheaper American
goods
proper noun
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Franklin
Delano
Democratic presidential
nominee who defeated
Hoover in the election
of 1932
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Roosevelt
proper noun
public
works
government-funded
building projects
noun
fireside chat
noun
Eleanor
Roosevelt
radio address by
President Roosevelt
meant to sound as if he
were in the listener’s
living room
wife of Franklin
Roosevelt and a
powerful political force
in her own right
proper noun
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critical period of
government activity
when President
Roosevelt pushed
Congress to put in place
key parts of his program
Hundred
Days
proper noun
New Deal
Roosevelt’s wide range
of measures to provide
recovery from the Great
Depression
proper noun
subsidy
government payment
noun
mandate
require
verb
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meaningful
adjective
Huey P.
Long
Senator of Louisiana
who believed
Roosevelt’s policies
were too friendly to
banks and businesses
proper noun
Father
Charles
Coughlin
Catholic priest who
turned against President
Roosevelt for not doing
enough to curb the
power of banks and
businesses
proper noun
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critic of the New Deal
whose ideas helped
shape Roosevelt’s later
policies
proper noun
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Second
New Deal
legislation that funded
additional relief
programs during the
Great Depression
proper noun
Social
Security
government system
which provides a
pension for many
people 65 and older
proper noun
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Lewis
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fiery speaker and
organizer of the CIO
proper noun
group that broke away
from the AFL to form a
new union of unskilled
workers
CIO
proper noun
new kind of strike that
required strikers to
remain at the factory
day and night until the
dispute was settled
sit-down
strike
noun
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deficit
noun
John
Maynard
Keynes
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occurs when a
government spends
more money than it
takes in through taxes
and other income
British economist who
believed that deficit
spending could provide
jobs and stimulate the
economy
proper noun
classical
well known, original
adjective
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internationally famous
African American
singer who suffered
discrimination in the
United States
proper noun
minimum
wage
the lowest wage an
employer can legally
pay a worker
noun
incumbent
person presently in a
political office
noun
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