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Earnings on stocks
What is the stock market
President Hoover's Nickname during the Great Depression
What is Great Humanitarian
Gave president broad powers to control banking policies and to reopen banks as he saw fit
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act
Government must take control of bringing a nation out if economic depression
What is Keynesian Economics
Governments attempt to to control wages & prices to limit competition among businesses
What is the NRA, National Recovery Act
Place where people bought and sold stocks
what is New York Stock Exchange
First three months of Roosevelt's presidency in which 15 major laws were passed in Congress
What is First Hundred Days
President Roosevelt's radio conversations with the American people to reassure them during Great Depression
What is fireside chats
Spending more than received from taxes and other revenues
What is deficit
Public relief program that built roads, bridges, public buildings, parks, & other facilities
What is WPA, Works Progress Admin
Risky investments for the chance of making a quick profit
What is speculation
Novel by John Steinbeck that intended to draw attention to the migrant farmworkers
What is The Grapes of Wrath
Insured all members bank accounts for up to $5,000 per account
What is FDIC- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Legalized the sale of liquor, repealing Prohibition
What is the 21st Amendment
Government project that provided jibs for young men
What is CCC-Civilian Conservation Corps
Paying a small % of the price of a stock in hopes of selling it at a profit & paying off the loan
What is on margin
Losing confidence in banks, people rush to withdraw their money
What us bank runs
President Roosevelt's government spending and jobs program
What is New Deal
Project that controled flooding, conserved soil, & brought hydroelectric power to the South
What is TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority
Act that established a government fund for unemployment & old age insurance
What is the Social Security Act
Supply of unsold goods
What is surplus inventory
Closing banks for a certain period if time
What is bank holidays
Group of socialist University professors who advised Roosevelt on his economic & social reforms
What is "brain trust"
Act that paid farmers not to plaint crops or graze livestock in order to create shortage
What is AAA, Agricultural Adjustment Act
Gave workers the right to form labor unions & practice collective bargaining
What is the National Labor Relations Act