Module 9 - Great Depression/Dust Bowl

The maintenance of a price at a certain level through government intervention.

• Price Support
• Credit
• Buying on Margin
• Direct Relief

An arrangement in which a buyer pays later for a purchase, often on an installment plan with interest charges

• Credit
• Buying on Margin
• Direct Relief
• Speculation

A measure based on the prices of the stocks of 30 large companies, widely used as a barometer of the stock markets health

• Dow Jones Industrial Average
• Stock Market
• Speculation
• Black Tuesday

An involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit

• Speculation
• Buying on Margin
• Credit
• Great Depression

The purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest.

• Buying on Margin
• Speculation
• Credit
• Breadlines

A name given to October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply

• Black Tuesday
• Great Depression
• Dust Bowl
• Soup Kitchens

A period, lasting from 1929 to 1940, in which the US economy was in severe decline and millions of American were unemployed.

• Great Depression
• Dust Bowl
• Black Tuesday
• Shantytowns

A law enacted in 1930, that established the highest protective tariff in US history, worsening the depression in America and abroad.

• Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
• Federal Home Loan Bank Act
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
• Bonus Army

A neighborhood in which people live in makeshift shacks

• Shantytowns
• Great Depression
• Dust Bowl
• Bread Lines

A place where free or low cost food is served to the needy.

• Soup Kitchen

• Bread Lines

• Shantytowns

• Great Depression