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| on margin | Buying stock by paying only a portion of the full cost up-front with promises to pay the rest later |
| Black Tuesday | October 29,1929, the day stock market crashed |
| Great Depression | Period of bad economic times in the US that lasted from 1929 to 1941 |
| Dust Bowl | Area of the Great Plains made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms in the 1930's |
| Herbert Hoover | President at beginning of Great Depression; wanted no government involvement in fixing Depression |
| Hoovervilles | shantytowns named after president |
| credit | promise to pay something later |
| Alphabet Soup | nickname given to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs |
| Tennnessee Valley Authority | FDR's new deal program to bring electricity to the rural south |
| (FDIC) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | New Deal Program that ensured and secured people's bank deposits |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | New Deal Program that paid farmers not to grow crops and to grow different crops |
| (NIRA) National Industrial Recovery Act | New Deal program that protected the rights of workers and allowed them to form unions |
| (PWA) Public Works Administration | New Deal program that employed people with government jobs (artists, musicians, laborers) |
| Franklin Roosevelt | The US president whose New Deal bought America out of the Great Depression |
| World War II | The real event and reason that America came out of the Great Depression |
