10th History Chpt. 17
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- put down percentage of stock
- Buying on Margin
- wrote: How to Win Friends and Influence People (book)
- Dale Carnegie
- president that helped America out of the Depression
- Franklin Roosevelt
- President during the depression, not very compassionate
- Herbert Hoover
- 9 African American teenagers were accused of raping 2 white women on a train...eventually appealed and the men only got sentences
- Scotsboro Case
- people that treveled from the Oklahoma Area to California to find jobs
- Okies
- Veternas that traved to Washington DC to got the bonus from serving in WWI
- Bonus Army
- Day that the stock market crashed
- Black Tuesday
- put a minimum on how much the crops cost
- Agricultural Marketing Act
- Shanty-Towns that the poor lived in during the Depression
- Hoovervilles
- "Smartest Dummy in the World" famous radio personality
- Charlie McCarthy
- Dust blowing around everywhere..ruined crop production...massive drought
- Dust Bowl
- Took pictures of Hoovervilles
- Dorthea Lange
- The country goes poor and millions of people are laid off
- Depression
- Favorite movie of American people; 4 hours long; in color
- Gone With the Wind
- Most famous child star during the 1930's
- Shirley Temple
- having your white pockets hangin out; showing you were broke
- Hoover Flags
- newspapers that the poor put over themselves
- Hoover Blankets
- Folk singer that wrote This Land is Your Land; This Land is My Land
- Woody Guthrie
- famous book about the Depression; later made into a movie; written by John Steinbeck
- Grapes of Wrath
- Was put in by Hoover to try and regain confidance in the Banking System
- Reconstruction Finance Corp