What is a system for buying and selling stocks in corporations?
Stock Market
What is a long period of rising stock prices
Bull market
What is the term that describes buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest
Margin
What is the act of buying stocks at great risk with the anticipation that the price will rise
Speculation
What is the persistent or heavy demand from a bank's depositors, creditors, or customers
Bank Run
Buying an item on credit with a monthly plan to pay off the value of the good
Installment
a homeless and normally penniless wonderer
hobo
Projects such as highways, parks, and libraries built with public funds for public use
public works
To take possession of a property from a mortgagor because of defaults on payments
Forclosed
In 1928, The democrats chose him, four-time governor of New York, Smith was the first Roman Catholic to win a major party's nomination for president
Alfred E. Smith
The following week, on October 29, a day that was later doubled Black Tuesday, prices took the steepest dive yet. That day, almost 16 million shares of stock were sold; the stock market lost between 10 billion and 15 billion in value.

Black Tuesday
In 1929, Hoover wanted to encourage overseas to trade by lowering tariffs. Conservative Republicans, however, wanted to protect American industry from foreign competition by raising tariffs. The resulting legislation, the HST, raised the average tariff rate to the highest level in American history, in the end it failed to help american businesses, because foreign countries responded by raising their own tariffs.
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
What is a terrible drought that struck the Great Plain.

With neither grass nor wheat to hold the scant rainfall, soil dried to dust.

Dust Bowl
He brought Mickey Mouse to Life in 1928, produced the first feautre-length animated film. Snow White and the seven dwarfs.
Walt Disney
A novelist who added flesh and blood to journalists' reports of poverty and misfortune. His writing evoked both sympathy for his characters and indignation at social injustice
John Steinbeck
A novelist who later won the Noble Prize for literature, shows what his characters are thinking and feeling before they speak Sound and the Fury
william Faulkner
Margaret Bourke White
a woman photographer
Grant wood
A painter in 1930s
In 1932 Hoover requested Congress to set up the R.

F.C. to make loans to businesses. By early 1932, the RFC had lent about 238 million to approximately 160 banks, 60 railroads, and 18 building-and-loan organizations

Reconstruction Finance Corporation
In May 1932 several hundred Oregon veterans began marching to Washington to lobby for passage of legislation.

Wearing ragged military uniforms, they trudged along the highways or rode the rails, singing old war songs. The press termed the marchers the "Bonus Army."

Bonus Army