history ch 24-25
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- price support
- mantain price at certain level through gov.
- black tuesday
- oct. 29,1929. stock prices fell sharply
- great depression
- 1929-1940. us economy was in severe decline & millions unemployed
- hawley-smoot tariff act
- established highest protective tariff in US history, worsening the depression
- shantytown
- neighborhood where people live in makeshift shacks
- soup kitchen
- free or low cost food served to needy
- bread line
- line of people waiting for free food
- dust bowl
- texas,OK,kansas,CO,NM. worthless for farming with drought and dust storms
- direct relief
- give money or food to needy by gov
- federal home loan bank act
- lowered home mortgage and allow farmers to refinance
- bonus army
- WWI veterans and family who demand bonus from military service
- civilian conservation corps
- put young unemployed to work building roads parks and trees
- new deal
- f. roosevelts program to alleviate problems of GD. reform, relief, recovery
- deficit spending
- gov spending more money than it recieves
- huey long
- proposed share-our-wealth. wanted to be president but was assassinated
- social security act
- provide aid to retirees, unemployed, and those with disabled children
- national youth admin.
- provide youth with aid and employment
- frances perkins
- 1st female cabinet member
- mary mcleod bethune
- educator who promoted opportunities for blacks
- new deal coalition
- alliance of diverse groups white blacks and union workers-in democratic party
- orson wells
- actor director writer and producer. created the war of the worlds
- the grapes of wrath
- by steinbeck. family of oklahomans leave dustbowl for cali
- parity
- gov. supported level for price of agricultural products to keep famers incomes steady
- tenessee valley authority
- construct dams and power plants in tennessee valley
- securities and exchange comission
- monitor stock market and enforce laws regulating stocks and bonds