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| n. | Federal Home Loan Bank Act
| b. | the Great
Plains | o. | mortgage | c. | Dust Bowl | p. | foreclosure | d. | Herbert Hoover | q. | Alfred E Smith | e. | soup kitchen | r. | public works | f. | Bonus Army | s. | Boulder Dam | g. | direct relief | t. | Capitol | h. | economic cycles | u. | credit | i. | bread line | v. | diet | j. | Hawley-Smoot Act | w. | drought | k. | DOw Jones Industrial Average | x. | speculation | l. | price support | y. | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | m. | buying on margin | z. | shantytown |
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1.
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A long period of unusually low
rainfall
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2.
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The payments made to pay back
the loan used to buy a house or land
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3.
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Short-term loans to buy
goodswith promises to pay later
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4.
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31st
president
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5.
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Law that keeps prices above a
set level
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6.
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Periods of good times, or
prosperity, alternating with periods of economic hard times
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7.
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Law that raised taxes on
imports and worsened the Depression
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8.
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Buying stock by paying only a
portion of the full cost up-front with promises to pay the rest later
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9.
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Unemployed World War I
veterans who marched to Washington to demand their war bonuses
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10.
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Money or food given directly
from the government to the needy
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11.
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Democratic presidential
candidate in 1928
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12.
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Dam on the Colorado River
built during the Depression to create jobs
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13.
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Investments in high-risk
ventures
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14.
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Used up, worn
out
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15.
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The food people
eat
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16.
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The taking of mortgaged
property by the lender because the borrower cannot make the payments on the loan
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17.
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A neighborhood where people
live in shacks
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18.
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Projects run by the
government
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19.
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Agency established in 1932 to
provide emergency relief to large businesses, insurance companies, and banks
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20.
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Area of the Great Plains made
worthless for farming by drought and dust storms in the 1930s
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21.
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Index of stock prices of
selected companies
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22.
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Place where free food is
served to the needy
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23.
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Law passed in 1931 to reduce
mortgage rates to save farmers from foreclosure
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24.
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A line of people waiting for
free food
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25.
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A large flat area of the
west-central United States originally covered by a type of grass that does not need much rain and
that has strong roots which hold
the
soil in place
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26.
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The building in Washington,
D.C., where Congress meets
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