Great Depression and New Deal Test

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**Buying on the margin**
This term specifically refers to paying a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest
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**Francis Perkins**
She became the first female cabinet member as secretary of labor
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**Reconstruction Finance Corporation**
The program from hoover unauthorized 2 billion to banks, life insurance company, railroads, and other large businesses
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**NIRA and the AAA**
Acts that were struck down for being unconstitutional by the supreme court 
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**Rickets**
Name of the disease many children suffered from as a result of poor diets 
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Mary Mcleod Bethune
Head of the Division of Negro Affairs of the NYA
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**Poor Man’s Divorce** 
Divorce rates increased so most men went to..
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**Hobos**
Name given to men who traveled across the country for work
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What year did the stock market crash?
1929
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What state was an agency named after that looked to prevent floods, teach soil management and provide electricity?
Tennessee
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Who was sent by hoover to disband the bonus army?
**Douglas Macarthur and Dwight D Eisenhower**
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**New Deal Coalition**
Made up of diverse groups dedicated to supporting FDR, the ND, and democrats
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**Federal Farm Board** 
Initiated by hoover, this bought crops to keep off the market until prices rose
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**Speculation**
refers to making extremely risky business transactions on te chance of making quick or considerable profits
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**Glass-Segal Act**
This act created the FDIC
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**Dr Francis Townsend**
This critic of the ND believed strongly in a old age pension plan
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**Federal Home Loan Bank Act**
This act lowered the mortgage rates and allowed farmers to refinance to avoid foreclosure
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**Emergency Banking Relief Act** 
Name of the act FDR had congress pass to inspect banks
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CCC
This administration provided jobs for men ages 16-25 paying then 5 dollars a month with 25 going to their families 
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Dust Bowl
Name given to the area that experienced severe droughts in the 1930s
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**Hawley Smoot Tariff**
This reduced the flow of goods into the US and prevented other countries from earning american currency to buy american goods
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Inside out pockets became known as
hoover flags
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**Huey Long**
This critic appreciated individual income and place limit on wealth
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**HooverVilles or Shantytowns**
Name of rundown areas people who were excited from their houses lived
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This is an arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later..
credit
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New Deal programs that can be categorized into these three categories
**Relief, recover, reform**
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This proposed WWI veterans be paid early for their service
patman bill
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The belief that people succeed through hard work and will take care of themselves rather than depend on the gov
rugged individualism
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Fireside Chat
FDR regularly made these speeches that made americans feel as though he was talking to them
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