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In order to protect loans made by stockbrokers to investors who bought stocks on margin, brokers could issue a
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margin call
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What severely dampened commerce on both sides of the Atlantic and intensified the Depression in the United States?
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the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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In order to protect loans made by stockbrokers to investors who bought stocks on margin, brokers could issue a
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What severely dampened commerce on both sides of the Atlantic and intensified the Depression in the United States?
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October 29, 1929, the day when stock prices took the steepest dive of that time, is known as
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For some banks, the losses they suffered in the crash were more than they could absorb and they were forced to
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Beginning in 1932, America's pastures and wheat fields from the Dakotas to Texas became a vast
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Many families on the Great Plains packed their belongings into old cars or trucks and headed west, hoping for a better life in
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Most people during the Depression were able to enjoy two popular forms of entertainment: the movies and
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Daytime radio dramas were sponsored by makers of laundry soap and nicknamed
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The Dust Bowl occurred because plowed land was left uncultivated and there was a terrible
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By 1932 Hoover concluded that the only way to provide funding for borrowers was for the government to do the lending, so he requested that Congress set up the
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Hoover did not want the government to create many new jobs because that would mean increased government
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Between 1930 and 1934, creditors foreclosed on nearly one million farms, and farmers retaliated in all of the following ways EXCEPT by
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Hoover believed that only state and city governments should dole out
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buying and selling ownership shares of companies
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a key cause of the Depression
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takes place when many depositors decide to withdraw their money at one time
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making a down payment and paying the rest of the price in monthly installments
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when stock prices continue to rise
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places where homeless people put up shacks on unused or public lands
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unemployed Americans who wandered around the country, walking, hitchhiking, or "riding the rails
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a famous film of the Depression era
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court officers who helped with evictions
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private charities set up to give poor people a meal
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held rallies and "hunger marches" during the Depression
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WWI veterans who marched to Washington, D.C.
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created when the government spends more money than it collects in taxes