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100
Little towns consisting of shacks
What is shantytowns
100
Democrat candidate in the election
Who is Alfred E. Smith
100
Date of Black Tuesday
What is October 29,1929
100
Leaped from 3 percent to 25 percent in 1929
What is Unemployment
100
Offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household.
What is Homestead Act
200
Lines of people waiting to receive food provided by charitable organizations or public agencies
What is bread lines
200
Had to leave their families to find jobs
Who were men or fathers
200
Established the highest protective tariff in United States history
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
200
Law that lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance and avoid foreclosure
What is the Federal Home Loan Bank Act
200
African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas
Who are exodusters
300
Cash payments or food provided by the government to the poor
What is direct relief
300
Tried to reassure Americans that the nations economy was on a sound footing
Who is Herbert Hoover
300
Races that had higher unemployment rates
Who are African Americans and Latinos
300
Known as RFC
What is Reconstruction Finance Corporation
300
Owned the Standard Oil Company
Who is John D. Rockefeller
400
Th period from 1929 to 1940 in which the economic plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed
What is the Great Depression
400
Led the Bonus Army to the nation's capital to support the Patman Bill
Who is Walter Waters
400
The other country affected by the Great Depression
What is Europe
400
Act that banned entry to all Chinese
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
500
Paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest
What is buying on margin
500
Plagued by dust storms and evictions, thousands of ______ and ______ left their land behind
Who are farmers and sharecroppers
500
One speculator who sold his stock and made money (Father of John F. Kennedy)
Who is Joseph P. Kennedy
500
Overt favoritism toward native-born Americans
What is nativism