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| Great Depression | Time when the nation begam locked in a doward economic spiral |
| Buying on Margin | buying stocks on credit with a loan from a broker |
| New Deal | A series of government programs intended to lift the country out of the drepression by creating jobs, spurring economic activity, and providing for the basic needs of people |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | Congress created to protect bank accounts |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | created by congress in 1933. These workers built dams in seven states along Tenessee River basin |
| Social Security | A supplemental pension plan for retired workers over the age of 65 |
| Black Tuesday | The day the stock market crashed, October 29, 1929 |
| Hoovervilles | Camps built outside major cities during the Great Depression by homeless people who blamed President Hoover for their situation |
| Congress of Industrial Organizations | National labor group formed in 1938 that joined together many industrial unions |
