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  • Q1
    A period of great economic hardship throughout the world that lasted from 1929 until WWII mobilization at the end of 1941.
    Great Depression
    30s
  • Q2
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    Causes:
    30s
  • Q3
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    -Over Production/Under Consumption that led to falling prices
    30s
  • Q4
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    -Consumerism: citizens buying and spending more money than they saved
    30s
  • Q5
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    -Speculation: Buying on Margin (risky stocks)
    30s
  • Q6
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    -Stock Market Crash 1929 ("Black Tuesday")
    30s
  • Q7
    October 29, 192, the day of the worst stock market crash in American history.
    Black Tuesday
    30s
  • Q8
    the practice of engaging in risky financial transactions in an attempt to profit from short or medium term fluctuations in the stock market
    speculation
    30s
  • Q9
    A drought and a series of terrible dust storms on the great plains during the 1930's that destroyed farms, caused disease, led to mass migration, and thousands of farm foreclosures.
    Dust Bowl
    30s
  • Q10
    a slang term given to dust bowl refugees from Oklahoma who migrated West to settle in California.
    Okies
    30s
  • Q11
    a term for the shantytowns (makeshift villages) of homeless people that sprung up outside cities across America during the Great Depression. Shelters were built of old wood, tin, boxes and other discarded materials.
    Hoovervilles
    30s
  • Q12
    a group of 10,000 to 20,000 WWI veterans who marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 to support a bill under debate in congress , known as the Patman Bill which mandated the immediate cash payment of the endowment promised to the men who fought in the WWI.
    Bonus Army
    30s
  • Q13
    In 1929, a terrible plunge in stock market prices that started the Great Depression.
    Stock Market Crash
    30s
  • Q14
    Market produces more of a product than consumers want (or will buy).
    overproduction
    30s
  • Q15
    Transient people who wandered the country, hitching rides on railroad boxcars and sleeping under bridges during the Great Depression.
    hoboes
    30s

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