| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Credit | The promise to pay for an item in the future. |
| Speculation | Taking a financial risk in hopes of making a large profit. |
| Stock Market | Where shares of companies are bought and sold. |
| Investor | One who puts money in a business to make a profit. |
| On Margin | Buying a stock with a small down payment, the rest to be paid of later. |
| Evicting | Removing tenants from property or building. |
| Migrated | Moved. |
| Farm Security | Tried to help migrant and small farms in the dust bowl. |
| Bigotry | Attitude or behavior of a narrow minded person. |
| Bread Lines | where food was given out during the great depression. |
| Revenues | Income from City, State, or National Taxes. |
| Relief | Goods, money or jobs by the government. |
| Racketeers | People involved in organized illegal activities. |
| Francis Perkins | Secretary of labor, first woman cabinet member, and employment reformer. |
| Jane Addams | Pioneer of social work who started Hull Houses. |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | Reduced work week to 40 hours, Increased/ Created minimum wage. |
| United Automobile Workers | union of people who worked in car factories |
| Womans Brigade | made food for strikers and helped in the sit down strike at general motors in 1937. |
| Sit Down Strikes | when labor ers went on strike abd stayed in the work place |
| star system | popular actors to ensure a films success |
| talkies | feature films to use sound in 1930 |
| The Jazz Singer | the first full length talkie. |
| Little Caesar | one of the first of films to use spoken voices on soundtracks |
| Charlie Chaplin | Actor, silent film star who made the transition to talkies. |
| Franklin Roosevelt | President during Great Depression |
| new deal | series of govermental programs to put people back to work |
| Dust Bowl | the enviromental crisis during The Great Depression, no rain for two years, farmers lost their farms |
| October 29, 1929 | Date the Stock Market Crashed |
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