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stock marcket
a system for buying and selling shares of company
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bulll marcket
rising stocks
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margin
small cash dowpayment
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margin call
demanding the investors repay the loan at once
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speculations
investing money at great risks with the anticipation that the price will rise
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installment
pay small payments now and the rest later
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shantytowns
a poor section of towns consisting of crudely built dwelling useally made of wood.
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hoovervilles
blaming the president for there problems
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hobos
a homeless and useally penniless wanderer
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dust bowl
southern great plains severely damaged by droughts and dust storms during 1930
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soap opera
shows that were sponcered but soap prodcts
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goverment works
govermant financed buildings projects
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relief
money that went diectly to improverished familys
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forclosed
taking possession of and evicting the family
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gold standard
one ounce of gold equaled a set of dollars
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fireside chats
direct talks FDR held with the american ppl to let thenknow what he was trying to accomplish
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deficit spending
gov practice of spending borrowed money rather than raising taxes ,useallyan attempt to boost the economy
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binding arbitration
in which a neutral party would listin to both sides and decide the issues
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sit down strike
method of botcotting work by sitting down at work and refusing to leave the establishment
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social security
a law requiring workers and employers to pay tax
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broker state
working out conflicts among intreests
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safty nets
something the provides security against misfortune
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anarchists
people who appos all forms of gov
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eugenics
a pseudo science that deal with the gentics
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flapper
a young dramitic stylish and uncoventional women
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evolution
humans had develpod over hundereds of years from life forms
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creationism
the beilf that god made us
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police power
gov powers to control ppl and property in the intrest of puplic safty, health, welfare and morel
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speakeasies
secret bars where you can buy alcohol
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bohemian
artistic and unconvential lifestyle
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mass medai
radio, moves, newspaper, and mags
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jazz
a style of music influenced by dixieland music and ragtime.
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blues
a soulfilled style of music that evoled from african american spirituals
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normalcy
to return to normal life after the war
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immunity
freedom from prosecution
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mass production
large scale production manufacturing usally done by machinery
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assembly line
a production system with machine and workers arranged so each person performs an assigned task again and agian
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welfare capitalism
system in which compaines enable employers to buy stock, participate in profits sharing, and recive med care
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open shop
a workplace where employees are not required to join a union
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suppl side economics
economic theory that will lower taxes will bost the econmy as busnisses and individual invest thier money
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copper individualism
pres hoover policy of the encouraging manufacturer and distributors to form there own oragiztion and volunteer into the gov
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isolationism
national policy of avoidling involment in world affirs
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