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Buying on margin was a method of buying stocks
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with borrowed money
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As a result of the stock market crash some bsbkers suffered more losses than they could absorb and
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Closed
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In the depression charity set up ____ to give poor people meals
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Soup kitchens
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During the depression most people were able to enjoy which two popular forms of entertainment
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Radio and movies
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As Creditors foreclosed on nearly 1 million farms between 1930 and 1934, some farmers destroyed their crops in a desperate attempt to you
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raise prices
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When the Senate voted down a bill that promised an immediate 1000 bonus for each veteran of World War I some veterans
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March to Washington
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Prices first began to decline the late 1929 because
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Overproduction/ less profits
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Depression newly homeless people put up communities of shacks that they called
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Hooverville's
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Bring the 1930s many Americans preferred movies radio programs and other forms of popular entertainment that
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Help them to escape from reality
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The period between March 9 and June 16, 1933 when Congress passed 15 major acts to meet the economic crisis of the depression was called the
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New deal
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The emergency banking relief act help solve the banking crisis by
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Settingdown things to see which ones were solvent
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Stock market Congress created the
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S EC
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Market to get steepest died on October 29, 1929 the day known as
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Black Thursday
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By the time of The stock market crash the government did not ensure bank deposit so
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People lost their savings
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In search of work or a better life many unemployed people
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Headed to California
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The first feature-length animated film was
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Snow White
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Super trailer for on then artists and writers of the 1930s often used ___ as subjects and they work
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real life
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Pres. Hoover's image was tarnished by the route of the bonus marchers as well as by the
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Farmboard/ laissez-faireism
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___ Invested in stocks betting that the market would climb so that they could make a quick profit
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Speculators
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The stock market crash we can the nations banks because
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They Invested in the stock market
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The depression had deep roots in economy of the 1920s including overproduction high tariffs missteps by the Federal Reserve and
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Uneven distribution of wealth
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Farmers on the Great Plains begin to lose their crops during the depression because
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Drought
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Pres. Hoover hope that increasing government funding for public works projects would
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Alleviate depression
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Thousands of World War I veterans came in Washington DC in 1932 the lobby Congress to
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Demand their Bonus
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Which program pay farmers not to grow certain crops such as cottin corn wheat and tobacco
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AAA
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Perhaps the most important result of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's first new deal was a noticeable change in
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Mood of country
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Did the new deal has been in effect for two years the US economy
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only slightly improved
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Pres. Roosevelt desire to change the political balance on the Supreme Court led to
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The court packing
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Air labor standards act about child labor limited the workweek to 44 hours for most workers and
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Raise minimum weight
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President roosevelts policies for ending the depression became known as the
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New deal
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The Social Security act established the principle that the federal government should be responsible for
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Taking care of people who couldn't take care of themselves
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Bold series of programs and reform that present Roosevelt launched in 1935 cane to be called
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Second new deal
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Which figure in the Roosevelt administration was most active and bring African-Americans and women into the new deal coaliayion
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Interims of its main goal of ending the depression the new deal was only a limited success but it
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Build up confidence
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Franklin Roosevelt entered office with no clear agenda or strong political ideology but his administration favored government
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Intervention in the economy
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To fight depression the first thing present Roseville set out to do was
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Provide relief
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In 1934 Sen. Huey Long Louisiana begin criticizing the new deal from the left in calling for
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Sharing the wealth
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Pres. Roosevelt policies for ending the depression became known as
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The new deal
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The Reconstruction finance Corporation marked the first time the federal government had established an agency to stimulate the ____ during peacetime
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Economy
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The agricultural adjustment act that Roseville asked Congress to pass was based on the idea that price is for farm goods were low because farmers grew too ___ food
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Much
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Pres. Roosevelt and his advisers did not want to simply give money to the unemployed for these that was a series of government agencies that we organize ___ programs for the unemployed
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Wirk
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The group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington in 1930 was called
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Bonus army
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When Pres. Hoover ordered the building in Washington DC create a veteran the ultimate result was 700 ____ chasing unarmed veterans and tear-gassing stranglers
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Soldiera
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Is it Roosevelts energy serenity confidence and ___ gave many Americans hope despite the tough times in the depression
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Public speaking
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