| A | B |
|---|
| Alfred E. Smith | the Democratic nominee in the 1928 presidential election |
| Stock Market | system for buying and selling shares of companies |
| Bull Market | long period of rising stock prices |
| Margin | way of buying stocks by paying a small percent of the price and taking a loan from a stockbroker |
| Margin Call | demand by a broker for the investor to repay the loan at once |
| Speculation | buying shares, betting stock market will continue to rise, and selling stock for quick money |
| Black Tuesday | the day, October 29, 1929, that the stock market took a steep dive |
| Installment | monthly payment made on a high-cost item |
| Hawley-Smoot Tariff | high tariff that damaged American sales abroad |
| Baliff | court official |
| Shantytowns | communities formed on unsued or public lands by newly homeless people |
| Hoovervilles | name given to shantytowns |
| Dust Bowl | dried-up lands of the Great Plains that resulted from a severe drought |
| Walt Disney | producer of the first feature-length animated film |
| Soap Operas | daytime radio shows that were sponsored by the makers of laundry soaps |
| Grant Wood | artist, who emphasized traditional American values |
| John Steinback | novelist who wrote about the poverty in the Great Depression |
| William Faulkner | author who used the stream of consciuness technique |
| Publlic Works | government-financed building projects |
| Reconstruction Finance Cooperation | organization set up by Congress to make loans to businesses |
| Relief | money that went directly to people in poverty |
| Foreclosed | taken possession of by creditors |
| Bonus Army | WWI vetreans who marched on Washingtom to demand promised bonuses |
