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Prosperity Shattered
Hard Times
Hoover's Policies
100
One with an upward trend in stock prices
What is bull market?
100
Collections of make shift shelters built out of packing boxes, corrugated iron, and other thrown-away items?
What are shantytowns?
100
Hoover's idea that success comes through individual effort and private enterprise
What is rugged individualism?
200
The practice of purchasing stocks with borrowed money
What is margin buying?
200
The mutual aid socities formed my Mexican-American communities to help each other
What are mutualistas?
200
Argued that the government should keep its hands off the economy and wanted American businesses to deal with the crisis on their own
Who is Andrew Mellon?
300
The total value of all goods and services produced in a year
What is the U.S. gross national product?
300
The daughter of migrants who had fled from revolution in Mexico to settle in California
Who is Josefina Fierro de Bright?
300
What congress and state governments funded at Hoover's request
What are public-works programs?
400
A central cause of the great depression dealing with income
What is unequal distribution?
400
The group which organized Hispanic migrants ot resist oppresive conditions
What is El Congreso?
400
One of Franklin Roosevelt's political aspects
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
500
How some Americans bridged the income gap to purchase goods
What is credit?
500
What Americans looked to for relief as the psychological strain of the Great Depression increased
What is popular culture and entertainment?
500
The party that helped expose racial injustice
What is the communist party?