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Final Jeopardy

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_____________________ is an arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later for purchases.
Credit

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Congress tried to help out farmers with a piece of legislation called the McNary-Haugen bill. This called for federal _________________________ for key products such as wheat, corn, cotton, and tobacco. The government would buy surplus crops at guaranteed prices and sell them on the world market.
Price Supports

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___________________________________ is the most widely used barometer of the stock market’s health.
Dow Jones Industrial Average

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________________________________ is buying stocks and bonds on the chance of a quick profit while ignoring the risks.
Speculation

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________________________________ is when you pay a small percentage of a stock’s prices as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
Buying on Margin

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October 29 became known as _______________ the bottom fell out of the market and the nation’s confidence.
Black Tuesday

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The stock market signaled the beginning of the ______________________________________ the period from 1929 to 1940.
Great Depression

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The _______________ established the highest protective tariff in United States history.
Hawley-Smoot Tariff

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____________________________ were little towns consisting of shacks that sprang up as a result of the Great Depression.
Shanty Towns

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__________________offering free or low-cost food and _______________________________ , or lines of people waiting to receive food provided by charitable organizations or public agencies, became a common sight.
Soup Kitchens and Bread Lines

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The region that was hardest hit by the draught of the 1930s became known as the __________.
Dust Bowl

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_____________________________ is cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor.
Direct Relief

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President _____________________________ tried to reassure Americans that the nation’s economy was on a sound footing.
Hoover

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Hoover built _________________which is 726ft. high and 1244ft long it would be the world’s tallest and the second longest dam.
Boulder Dam

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_______________________________________ lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance their farm loans and avoid foreclosure.
Federal Home Loan Bank Act

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10,000 to 20,000 World War I veterans and their families arrived in Washington D.C. from various parts of the country called themselves the __________________ army.
Bonus Army

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_________was a two-term governor of New York and a distant cousin of former president Theodore Roosevelt.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The program designed to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression, became known as the ______________.
New Deal

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__________________________________ provided money to states to create jobs chiefly in the construction of schools and other community buildings.
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

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_____________________________ is when the government spends more money than it is receiving in revenue.
Deficit Spending

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_____________________________ was a social reformer who combined her deep humanitarian impulses with great political skills.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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This was President Wilson’s plan to prevent another war in Europe.
14 Point Plan

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_____________________________________ was the most famous film of the 1930s.
Gone with the Wind

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_________________________ was an African American author who wrote Native Son.
Richard Wright

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______________________________________acts as a mediator in labor disputes.
National Labor Relations Board

27. Final Jeopardy Name the 4 causes of the Great Depression
Tariffs and War Debt Policies kill the foreign market
Crisis is the Farm Sector
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Unequal Income Distribution