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| Gone with the Wind | 1939, novel written by Margaret Mitchell |
| Dust Bowl | between 1932-1939, an average of nearly 50 "black blizzards" a year turned 1500 sqaure miles between Oklahoma panhandle and western Kansas into a gigantic "Dust Bowl", whose balefuel effects were as far north as te Dakotas and far south as Texas. |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Ford's feature film about the Joad family. |
| "invasion from mars" | in 1938, Orson Welles broadcast The War of the Worlds, Americans everywhere listened to reports and believed it |
| Marijuana Tax Act | 1937, Congress passed it making the contimal use of marijuaa a criminal offense |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | protect the United States from cheap foerign goods |
| Bonus Expeditionary Force | group of WWI vetrans who had been denied the pensions organized the first march on Washington in protest |
| margin requirements | part of securities prices that a buyer must pay for, balance of price is met with broker, who supplies the loan. |
| Okies | Oklahoman migrnats who went to California |
| Joad Family | the Grapes of Wrath (1939), the drove west along Route 66 through Arizona and New Mexico, their belongings piled high a top rickety jalopies heading for the west coast |
| Father Divine | founded a religious cult that promiste followers an after live of full equality |
| bear market | the "bulls" or buyers of stock had routed the bears, those wo sell |
| "Swing" | type of jazz music that became popular during the 1930s |
| Becky Sharp | film in which color was first introduced |
| Southern Tenant Farmers Union | first labour organization of tenant farmenrs in the south |
| Emergency Relief and Construction Act | allowed the RFC to lend up to $1.5 billion for "reporoductive" public works that paid for themselves, like oll bridges and slup clearances. |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | an agency that could lend money to banks and their cheif corporate debtors, insurance compaines and rail roads |
| the Scottsboro boys | nine black teenagers who was accused of raping two white woment on a train to Scottsboro, Alabama |
| William Z. Foster | communist, called for worker ownership of businesses |
| George S. Patton, Jr. | general who regrouped the allies and master mined an impresive string of victories. |
| The Good Earth | 1937, a story about a farmer from China |
| J. Paul Getty | American bussines executive |
| Milo Reno | Iowa Evangelist, Progressive farmer |
| Benny Goodman | American clarines, composer and band leader |
