History chapter 21
Bonus army
A group of WWI veterans who marched on Washington DC to demand the bonus money that congress had promised them for their service
Hooverdam
A large public works project that brought much-needed employment to the southwest in early 1930s
Localism
A policy committed to solving problems at the local and state levels
Speculation
A risky stock purchase intended to turn quick profits
Harley- smoot tariff
A tax passed in 1930 on foreign products brought into the U.S.
Great Depression
A time of economic downturn and high unemployment between 1929and 1941
Increased dramatically
At onset of the Great Depression, urban unemployment
Hooserviles
During the Great Depression many homeless people grouped together to build____ or make shift shantytowns of tents and shacks
Okies
Dustbowl refugees from the Great Plains called____ headed west to look for work
Taxing American imports
European countries reacted to the Hawley-smoot Tariff by
Using intensive farming practices that removed protective grasses
Farmers contributed to the problems that led to the dust bowl by
Breadlines
Impoverished people in the cities often waited in____ to obtain free food from charities and public agencies
Tenant farmers
Lived on and worked land owned by someone else.
Repartrition
Local state, and federal people governments tried to coerce Mexican immigrants to return th Mexico through_____
Staging nonviolent protest
Members of the taxpayers protection league resisted evictions be
Thought that the business cycle would correct itself
President Hoover responded cautiously to the Great Depression because he
A lack of credit
President Hoover urged congress to institute the reconstruction finance corporation RFC because he believed that the economy suffered from
Capitalism
Some Americans blamed the Great Depression on
Douglas MacArthur
The general who ordered federal troops to fire tear gas on protestors in DC
Business cycle
The periodic expansion and contraction of the economy
RFC
The reconstruction finance corporation instituted by congress In 1932 to make government loans to railroads, business, and banks to stimulate economic recovery
Black Tuesday
The time at which the stock market collapsed in the great crash
Nearly double the national rate
The unemployment rate among African Americans was
Dust bowl
The____ caused hundreds of thousands of people to migrated from the Great Plains
Herbert Hoover
U.S. president from 1929 to 1933
Lack of government intervention
What economic condition did economist John Maynard Keynes believe caused the Great Depression
Americans purchased many consumer goods on credit
Which of these factors helped hide economic problems in the 1920s
President Hoovers economic policies had failed
Why did Americans decide that the country needed new leadership in 1932
Too many depositors tried to withdraw their money all at once
Why did so many banks fail at the onset of the Great Depression
Trickle down economics
the theory that money poured into the top of the economic pyramid will trickle down to the base