A | B |
Bull Market | Period of rising stock prices |
Bear Market | Period of declining stock prices |
Buying on Margin | Purchasing stocks on credit with borrowed money |
Bonus Army | Group of army veterans who marched on Washington |
Brain Trust | Group of experts who helped Roosevelt develop a plan |
New Deal | Series of programs designed to help the U.S. economy |
Sit-Down Strike | Method of protest where workers would stay in factories but refuse to work |
FDIC-SEC | Organizations that were started to help banks |
AAA-FCA | Organizations designed to help farmers keep their farms |
CCC-CWA-WPA | Organizations that gave people jobs building roads and airport |
Social Security Act | Helped the elderly, children, people with disabilities |
Herbert Hoover | President who didn't believe governments should help individual people |
Franklin Roosevelt | President who set up the New Deal |
Huey Long | La. Senator who wanted the "Share the Wealth" plan to provide everyone the same income |
Father Charles E. Coughlin | Wanted the government to help the poor and nationalize industries |
Alfred E. Landon | Kansas governor who ran against Roosevelt in 1936 election |