The Great Depression vocabulary

making extremely risky business transactions with the chance of making quick profits

this is used to monitor the health of the stock market

farm prices that are considered fair

this was made up of mostly veterans who had built a shanty town near Washington, D.C.

an arrangement where consumers agree to buy now and pay later, often with interest charges

People who left their farms in the Dust Bowl and migrated to the West Coast

the name of FDR's policies

paying a small percentage of a stock's price  as a down payment and borrowing the rest

Setting price levels at or above market levels by government, often in agriculture

phrase that refers to the stock market crash on October 29, 1929