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| Price support | The maintenance of a price at the certain level through government intervention. |
| Credit | An arrangement which a buyer pays later for a purchase, often on an installment plan with interest charges. |
| Alfred E. Smith | Was a career politician who had served four terms as governor of New York. |
| Speculation | An involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit. |
| Buying on Margin | The purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest. |
| Black Tuesday | A name given to October 29,1929, when stock prices fell sharply. |
| Great Depression | A period, lasting from 1929 to 1941, in which the U.S economy was in severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed. |
| Dow Jones Industrial Average | A measure based on the prices of the stocks of 30 large companies, widely used as a barometer ofthe stock market's health. |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act | A law enacted in 1930 that established the highest protective tariff in U.S. History, worsening the depression in America and abroad. |
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