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Business Cycle | The cycle of economic ups and downs. It has four phases. |
surplus | Having too many goods on hand |
New Deal | A deal launched by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to help bring up the economy |
Antitrust Laws | Laws enacted in the late 1800s to outlaw businesses that restrained trade |
minimum wage | The least amount of money an employee can get paid per hour |
Social Security Act | An act passed in 1935 to provide benefits to covered workers, children, the blind, widows, and the elderly |
scab | A replacement worker during a labor union strike |
deficit spending | Spending more money than is taken in |
dictator | An individual who wanted to rule a country through military might |
fascism | A form of government in which a dictator controls the social lives of citizens and is against all oppositions |
appeasment | The policy of giving a nation what wants in order to avoid war |
genocide | The planned destruction of an entire race or group |
ration | Limiting the consumption of something |
integrate | To bring together as equals |
prejudice | A dislike of a particular group |