U.S. History from 1877 Vocabulary 9

the most severe economic downturn in the nation’s history, which lasted from 1929 to 1941

start of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency in 1933, when many New Deal programs were passed

the highest import tax in history, passed by congress in 1930

the collapse of the American stock market in 1929

central and southern Great Plains in the 1930s, the region sustained of drought and dust storms

periods in which a nation’seconomy grows, then contracts

auctions during the Great Depression where neighbors saved each other’s property with low bids

investors purchase a stock for only a fractionof its price and borrow the rest

president Roosevelt’s relief, recovery, and reform programs to combat the Great Depression

payment plan to make payments at set intervals over a period of time until the debt is paid

term describing a makeshift homeless shelter during the early years of the Great Depression

government-funded projects to build public facilities

measure of average of stock prices of major industries

WW1 veterans who protested in Washington, in 1932, demanding payment of a pension bonus 

set up by president Hoover in 1932 to give governmentcredit to a number of institutions

the practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return

labor relations in which companies meet some of their workers needs without prompting by unions

constitutional amendment ratified in 1933 to repeal prohibition

total annual value of goods and services a country produces

October 29, 1929, the day on which the great crash of the stock market began