| A | B |
|---|
| stock market | a system for buying and selling shares of a company |
| bull market | a long period of rising stock prices |
| buy on margin | getting a loan to buy stocks |
| margin call | demanding an investor pay a debt |
| speculation | buying a high-risk stock, betting the stock would climb quickly |
| shantytown | a community of homeless families |
| hobo | unemployed wanderers |
| Dust Bowl | drought and overuse conditions in the midWest in the mid 1930s |
| public works | government financed building projects |
| RFC | Reconstruction Finance Corporation- made loans to banks and RRs |
| relief | money that went directly to families in need |
| foreclosure | the bank takes possession of a farm or home when a family cannot pay the mortgage |
