New Deal Vocab

One of the earliest New Deal programs, established to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression by providing national conservation work primarily for young unmarried men.

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The worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939.

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A sharp decline in U.S. stock market values in 1929 that contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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A precipitous drop in the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on Oct 29, 1929.

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The excess of production over consumption.

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A beetle that feeds on cotton buds and flowers

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an American political term used in the mid- and late-20th century to describe conservative Southern Democrats

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The amount of money that a national government has borrowed through various means, including foreign governments, investors and federal agencies.

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A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.

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A series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944

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The action of taking possession of a mortgaged property when the mortgagor fails to keep up their mortgage payments.

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