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- shantytowns sarcastically named after President Hoover; where some urban families moved after they were evicted for not paying rent
- speeches broadcast nationally over the radio by FDR explaining the complex issues and programs in plain language
- the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are essentially interchangeable
- rovided work relief and stimulated the economy by building schools, hospital, courthouses, airports, dams and bridges
- established by Herbert Hoover; lent federal funds to banks, insurance companies and railroads so that their recovery could "trickle down" to ordinary Americans
- FDR's program reflected a mix of ideas, some his own and some from a diverse group of advisors known as this, including academic experts, politicians and social workers
- one of FDR's personal ideas; employed 2.5 million young, men to work on reforestation and flood control projects, build roads and bridges in national forests and parks
- hired laborers to build roads, teachers to staff rural schools and singers to give public performances
- disobeyed President Hoover's orders and on July 28 led cavalry, infantry and tanks against the encampment
- extended government assistance to sound banks and reorganized weak ones
- 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. It responded to needs for relief, reform, and recovery from the Great Depression
- -selected by democrats to become president; was from New York and pledged a "new deal for the American people."-became president on March 4, 1933-He promised action. His program reflected a mix of ideas, some his own and some from a diverse group of advisors known as the Brain Trust including academic experts, politicians and social workers
- created by Herbert Hoover to help raise private funds for voluntary relief agencies
- the mass deportation during the Great Depression, when the American government forcibly deported between 1 and 2 million American citizens and legal residents of Mexican descent
- dictated by an entity that can supersede the effects of supply and demand
- the action of taking possession of a mortgaged property when the mortgagor fails to keep up their mortgage payments
- an economic good or service that has full or substantial fungibility; prices fell by 55% between 1929 and 1932
- October 29, 1929; when panicked investors dumped their stocks at any price
- what phrase did slave planters like thomas jefferson use to justify slavery in late 1700
- A major slave revolt that nearly broke out in Virginia in 1800 was led by