| Term | Definition |
|---|
| stock | a part of a company's profit |
| soup kitchen | a place where hungry people can get food |
| Federal Reserve | controls our money supply (FED) |
| Bonus army | an army of veterans of World War I who wanted their "bonuses" for fighting |
| hooverville | areas where people made make shift homes because they were kicked out of their old homes |
| tariffs | taxes on imported goods |
| run on banks | when people all go to with draw their money at once from the banks |
| speculation | people were buying stock hoping it would go up even if it wasn't good |
| migrant workers | workers who move from one place to another looking for work |
| Dust bowl | when the top soil was dried and blown all over the states |
| bull market | when the stocks go up for a long period of time |
| black tuesday | the day the stock market crashed |
| buying on Margin | borrowing money to buy stock to make money to pay the lender back |
| Herbert Hover | elected in 1928, a republican |
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